Dr. Ray O’Neill is Assistant Professor in Psychotherapy with DCU and a Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist in private practice working mainly, but not exclusively, within the LGBTQ community, with both individuals and couples. Current research projects explore Shame, Equality Diversity and Inclusion in Mental Health in Ireland, and collective generational transmission of trauma, again with particular emphasis on Irish experiences. As one of Ireland’s few resident male Agony Aunts, a regular contributor to The Ray Darcy Show, and co-fronting RTE’s Then Comes Marriage Ray works significantly (and sometimes with significance) with the media in discoursing love, relationships, dating and desire in the twenty-first century.

Recent publications include 'Tá an Neamhchomhfhiosach Struchtúrtha mar Theanga: If the Unconscious Is Structured Like a Language, How Might Speaking in Tongues Indicate Something Singular in the Structurings of an Irish Gaelic Unconscious?' published in Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, Palgrave, July 2020.

“‘Tá Súil Agam’: Deadly Visions of History in Ireland” ABEI Journal, Associação Brasileira de Estudos Irlandeses, The Brazilian Journal of Irish Studies, Vol. 20.3, December 2019.

"The Sons of the Father Fall on the Sin: Wilde Trauma across Generations": Psychoanalysis, Gender, and Sexuality to be published by CUP, Summer 2021.

His clinical website is available on www.machna.ie