Bruce Fink is a practicing Lacanian psychoanalyst and analytic supervisor in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He trained as a psychoanalyst in France for seven years with and is now a member of the psychoanalytic institute Lacan created shortly before his death, the École de la Cause Freudienne in Paris, and is also an affiliated member of the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Society and Institute.He is the author of six books on Lacan, a translator of Lacan's work into English (including Écrits: The First Complete Edition in English; Seminar XX: Encore; On the Names-of-the-Father; and The Triumph of Religion), and has written a series of novels whose main character is loosely based on Lacan: The Psychoanalytic Adventures of Inspector Canal (London: Karnac, 2010); Death by Analysis (London: Karnac, 2013); and others forthcoming.