Violence and the Feminine Contemporary Psychoanalytic Perspectives

Emanuela Quagliata is a training and supervising analyst of the Italian Psychoanalytical Society (IPA), guest member of the British Psychoanalytical Society (IPA) and Child Adolescent and Family Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist (ACP) based in Rome, Italy. She is Chair of the EPF Committee 'Violence and the Feminine' and served as Chair for the European Region of the IPA Committee on Women and Psychoanalysis (COWAP) from 2021 to 2025. She is the editor of Adolescents in Crisis: A Psychoanalytic Approach to the Challenges of Adolescence (2025)

Lisa Baraitser is Professor of Psychosocial Theory at Birkbeck, University of London, and a psychoanalyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society (IPA) in London, UK. She has written widely on psychoanalytic and feminist theory, motherhood and the ethics of care, social reproduction, and the temporalities of maintenance, repetition and repair in relation to foreclosed futures. She is the author of Maternal Encounters: The Ethics of Interruption (2009) which was joint winner of the Feminist and Women's Studies Association Book Prize.