Ian Parker is Professor of Psychology in the Discourse Unit at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. He is widely published, and his books include 'The Crisis in Modern Social Psychology' (1989), 'Psychoanalytic Culture: Psychoanalytic Discourse in Western Society' (1997), 'Critical Discursive Psychology' (2002), 'Slavoj Zizek: A Critical Introduction' (2004) and 'Psychoanalytic Practice and State Regulation' (2008). Simona Revelli is a psychoanalyst who works in private practice in London and the translator of a number of Italian psychoanalytic contributions. She is a full member of the College of Psychoanalysts-UK, the Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis, The Guild of Psychotherapists and the Society For Existential Analysis, and an affiliate member of the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research.