The hosts

Much of what English-speaking readers know about the Nordic reviews reached them through interviews rather than translations. Three people have done a great many of those interviews.

Stella O'Malley and Genspect international

Stella O'Malley and Genspect international

Founder of Genspect, psychotherapist, host of Beyond Gender

Stella O'Malley built Genspect into a network of clinicians and parents in more than twenty-five countries. Its European work, the conferences, the clinician groups, the country chapters, is part of the record this site keeps.

Mia Hughes on European systems

Mia Hughes on European systems

Researcher and co-host

Mia Hughes has written on the Swedish, Finnish and Dutch systems as three chapters of one story: a protocol exported before it was tested, and the countries that tested it first.

Dr Bret Alderman on European psychology and therapy

Dr Bret Alderman on European psychology and therapy

Psychologist and co-host

European psychotherapy has deep psychoanalytic and philosophical roots. Bret Alderman, a depth psychologist, is the Beyond Gender host who speaks that language, and who asks why those traditions were so easily set aside.