David Aaronovitch is a writer, broadcaster and commentator on international politics and the media. He writes for The Times Comment page on Tuesdays. He has previously written for The Guardian, The Observer and The Independent, winning numerous accolades, including Columnist of the Year 2003 and the 2001 Orwell prize for journalism. He has appeared on the satirical TV current affairs programme Have I Got News For You and made radio broadcasts on historical topics. He is the author of Paddling to Jerusalem: An Aquatic Tour of Our Small Country (2000) and Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History (forthcoming in 2009).

Caroline Bainbridge is Reader in Visual Culture at Roehampton University. She is the author of The Cinema of Lars von Trier: Authenticity and Artifice (2007) and A Feminine Cinematics: Luce Irigaray, Women and Film (2008). She co-edited Culture and the Unconscious (2007) and has published in journals such as Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, Screen, Journal for Cultural Research and Paragraph. Caroline is also a Director of MiW.

Brett Kahr is Senior Clinical Research Fellow in Psychotherapy and Mental Health at the Centre for Child Health, and a Visiting Clinician at the Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships, at the Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology. In addition to his work as a clinician and author, he has worked as a media psychologist for more than twenty-five years, participating in over 1,000 radio and television broadcasts. Since 2004, he has been the Resident Psychotherapist at BBC Radio 2, and host of the BBC campaign ‘Life 2 Live’. He has also presented several television programmes on psychological topics, and serves as the Special Media Adviser to the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy. Author or editor of six books, he has most recently published Sex and the Psyche (2008). He is a registered member of the British Psychoanalytic Council and Chair of the Society of Couple Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists.

Hugh Ortega Breton is a Cultural Studies visiting lecturer and PhD student of risk anxiety and emotional representation in TV and news journalism at Roehampton University. His current specialism involves analysing representational styles used to portray terrorism and conspiracy theorising through the application of object relations psychoanalysis, and has a wider interest in the consequences of emotivism in public life, particularly in politics. He has spoken at the Institute of Ideas’ Postgraduate Forum, Battle of Ideas 2007 and has written for Culture Wars. Hugh is also the MiW Research Assistant.

Barry Richards is Professor of Public Communication and currently Deputy Dean of the Media School at Bournemouth University. Formerly Professor of Human Relations at the University of East London, he is the author of Emotional Governance: Politics, Media and Terror (2007), and of scholarly articles on politics and emotion and on the therapeutic in contemporary culture.

Michael Rustin is Professor of Sociology at the University of East London, and a Visiting Professor at the Tavistock Clinic. He is an Honorary Affiliate Member of the British Psychoanalytical Society, and is currently Chair of its Applied Section. He is the author of many works on applications of psychoanalysis to cultural and sociological questions. These include The Good Society and the Inner World (1991) Reason and Unreason: Psychoanalysis, Science, Culture (2001); and with Margaret Rustin, Narratives of Love and Loss; Studies in Modern Children's Fiction (1987/2001) and Mirror to Nature: Drama, Psychoanalysis and Society (2002).

Margaret Walters has been a writer, journalist and academic. She taught literature for 20 years at Reading University and she has published books on art The Male Nude and Feminism: A Very Short Introduction. Margaret has also worked as a print and broadcast journalist on BBC Radio 4 and The World Service on such programmes as Kaleidescope and Critics Forum with Philip French and also edited The Listener. She became interested in the work of Marion Milner through the Squiggle Foundation, where she regularly attended meetings and presented papers. She is Marion Milner's literary executor and is currently editing Marion's final unfinished book Bothered By Alligators.

Valerie Walkerdine is Professor of Psychology in the Cardiff School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, UK. Her previous publications include Growing up Girl (with Helen Lucey and June Melody), Mass Hysteria: Critical Psychology and Media Studies (with Lisa Blackman), Daddy's Girl: Young Girls and Popular Culture, Children, Gender, Video Games and The Practice of Reason. She is editor of the journal Subjectivity. She is a member of the Royal Society of Arts and also an installation artist.

Candida Yates is Senior Lecturer in Psychosocial Studies at the University of East London. She is the author of Masculine Jealousy and Contemporary Cinema (2007) and a co-editor of Culture and the Unconscious (2007). She is an Associate Editor of the journal Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society and a co-editor of Emotion: Psychosocial Perspectives (forthcoming in 2009). Candida is also a Director of MiW.

Robert M Young studied Philosophy at Yale, Medical Sciences at Rochester and History & Philosophy of Science at Cambridge. He taught at Cambridge, Kent and Sheffield, where he was Professor of Psychotherapy and Psychoanalytic Studies. He has been a psychoanalytic psychotherapist for twenty-five years. More information and writings at http://www.psychoanalysis-and-therapy.com/rmyoung/index.html