Who We Are
Jason Childs
Jason Childs is a Lacanian psychoanalyst based in France, working in private practice both locally and internationally. Before entering clinical practice, he completed a Doctor of Philosophy focused on the relationship between philosophy and literature. He later undertook graduate training in counselling and psychotherapy alongside his psychoanalytic formation. Outside of his clinical practice, he writes and teaches internationally on psychoanalysis. He is a faculty member at the Blanton-Peale Institute in New York and has taught independently and through a range of organisations and institutions, including the Global Center for Advanced Studies and Pulsion Institute. He is the author of the books On Not Fitting In: Psychoanalytic Rem(a)inders (2026) and Drive: Theory and Clinic After Freud and Lacan (2027), forthcoming respectively with Routledge and Palgrave Macmillan. He posts about psychoanalysis on Instagram. Further information, including about clinical consultations and supervision, can be found via his website. You can also email him: jasonchilds(at)theanalyticforum.com.
Co-Director
Derek Hook is a Professor of Psychology and a clinical supervisor at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh. A scholar and practitioner of psychoanalysis, he is one of the editors (along with Calum Neill) of the Palgrave Lacan Series and of the four-volume Reading Lacan's Ecrits (with Calum Neill and Stijn Vanheule). He began his analytical training in London, at the Center for Freudian Analysis and Research. He is the author numerous books on psychoanalysis, including of Six Moments in Lacan (2016), Fanon, Psychoanalysis and Decolonial Psychology (2025) and the co-editor of Lacan on Depression and Melancholia (2023), in addition to many papers on various facets of the clinical and cultural dimensions of Lacanian Psychoanalysis. He posts maintains a YouTube channel with many lectures on Lacanian psychoanalysis, and can also be found on Instagram. You can also email him: derekhook(at)theanalyticforum.com.
Co-Director