Françoise Dolto (1908-1988), was an acclaimed French psychoanalyst and paediatrician. In her early career, she was mentored by Sophie Morgenstern, and she later became close friend of Jacques Lacan. She had a regular radio programme on the French national broadcast station France Inter and made many appearances on television and in print.

Sharmini Bailly is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist based in the UK. Her previous books include The Lacan Tradition (Routledge, 2018).