Ray O'Neill

Dr. Ray O’Neill is an Assistant Professor of Psychotherapy in DCU’s School of Nursing, Psychotherapy, and Community Health, and a psychotherapist in private practice who works primarily—though not exclusively—with the LGBTQ community. One of Ireland’s few male “Agony Aunts,” he is a regular contributor to the Irish media, particularly The Ray Darcy Show and was co-host of RTÉ’s Then Comes Marriage. Ray frequently engages with the media to explore themes of love, relationships, and desire in the twenty-first century. His current research examines how contemporary technologies shape desire, as well as how trauma is transmitted both individually and collectively across generations, with a particular focus on the legacy of the Irish Famine.
Recent publications include:
“‘Wilde Psychoanalysis: Oscar and Sigmund Architects of Modern Homosexualities” ABEI Journal, Associação Brasileira de Estudos Irlandeses, The Brazilian Journal of Irish Studies, Vol. 27.2, December 2025.
Kuznietsova, E., McMahon, A., & O’Neill, R. (2025). Supervisees’ perceptions of multicultural supervision in a historically monocultural context. The Clinical Supervisor, 44(1), 26–46.
“Oscar Wilde: Father and Som. Repeating Trauma across Generations”: Psychoanalysis, Gender, and Sexualities Routledge, 2022.
‘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.
His clinical website is available on http://www.machna.ie