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Halina Romanowska-Łakomy is an academic, writer and accredited psychotherapist and trainer. She attained her habilitation in Philosophical Anthropology from the Academy of Catholic Theology, Warsaw. She also studied for two years under Professor S. Leder in the Nervous Disorder Clinic of the Psychoneurology Institute of the Studium of Clinical Medicine, Warsaw. She interned under Professor V.E. Frankl, in Vienna, Austria, and had training supervised by Professor K. Jankowski in the ‘SYNOPSIS’ Center. Her main research focus is the philosophy of modern man, and she created and developed ‘Liberotherapy’, a philosophical conception of the origin of nervous disorders and existential therapy. The author of about 200 studies, including 13 books, she has actively participated in numerous academic conferences both in Poland and abroad. She has also been recognised with awards from the Albert Schweitzer World Academy of Medicine.Chris O’Neill was educated at Muhlenberg College, USA, the Jagiellonian University and the Catholic University of Lublin, Poland, and the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, UK, and has written about the Ukrainian minority in pre-war Poland, welfare reform in the United States, with his doctoral thesis focusing on the economic transformation of Poland in 1989–2005. As a Fulbright Scholar, he studied Mikołaj Sęp-Szarzyński, a metaphysical poet of the Polish Renaissance and Baroque. Chris has worked in marketing, research and privatisation; he has also been a teacher, manager in a presidential campaign and a lobster boat sternman. His book translations include works for the Polish parliament and Poland’s ministry of culture and for academia.