Ronald Britton (1932-2025) was a fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and a distinguished Fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society. His work is read extensively internationally, and he received a number of awards for excellence. He was the editor of Psychoanalytic Approaches to Forgiveness and Mental Health (2023) and The Oedipus Complex Today: Clinical Implications (1989). He was the author of Sex, Death, and the Superego: Updating Psychoanalytic Experience and Developments in Neuroscience (2020), Between Mind and Brain: Models of the Mind and Models in the Mind (2015) and Belief and Imagination: Explorations in Psychoanalysis (1998).

Susan Lawrence is a training and supervising analyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society in full time private practice in London. She teaches in the UK and internationally and is a trustee of the Melanie Klein Trust.