Academic biography

Dr Ray O’NEILL is an 

Assistant Professor in Psychotherapy in the School of Nursing, Psychotherapy and Community Health. He also is a registered practitioner as a Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist with both APPI and the ICP.

His research work and clinical practice has been around male sexual abuse survivors, EDI intersectional concerns in Mental Health systems, education and individual's lives, the LGBTQ community, and transgenerational trauma within an Irish context.

Ray has written extensively on the gay minoritised position for both services users and service providers within mental health discourses and practices with his doctoral research with DCU exploring the subjectivities involved and imposed on men in being called ‘homosexual’.

As one of Ireland’s few male Agony Aunts, Ray works significantly (and sometimes with significance) with the media in discoursing love, relationships, and desire in the twenty-first century, as a regular contributor to The Ray Darcy Show, and his co-fronting of the RTE television show Then Comes Marriage.
Current research explores the relationships between shame and personal and cultural identities; and the individual and collective transmission of trauma across generations, with particular emphasis on impacts of the Irish Famine experience.