List of Contributors

Barry Christie is a member of CAPP. Since graduating from the London School of Economics in 1983 he has maintained a strong interest in psychoanalytic theory and practice. He has worked as a therapist within the NHS and voluntary sector and also held public sector policy and project management positions within social services, urban regeneration, community safety, education and healthcare. Barry is a teacher at CAPP and has contributed to the development of programmes for Confer. His short story, ‘The bike’, was included in the Tales of Psychotherapy book published in 2007. Email: barryjameschristie@yahoo.co.uk

Jane Kitsen is an attachment-based psychoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice in West Yorkshire.

Liat Levy is a relational integrative psychotherapist and psychologist (BPS). Following a long relationship with the therapy world, Liat is now in the final stages of her Doctoral thesis in integrative counselling psychology and psychotherapy at the Metanoia Institute, where she is exploring the issue of ‘Love in psychotherapy’. Liat was born in Israel, and spent the early part of her childhood split between two countries (Israel and the USA). Later in life, she settled in London, where she involved herself in a range of self-development activities before completing her BSc (Hons) and MSc in Psychology while working as an occupational psychologist, primarily focusing on group dynamics. Currently, Liat is working as a psychotherapist in the NHS, where she sees clients with complex clinical needs, as well as in her private practices in north and south London. Email: or

Benjamin Marr is a registered psychoanalytic psychotherapist. He is also a qualified dance movement therapist and uses creative art therapies in his private practice. He conducts a supervision group at the Chelsea Methodist Church in psychodynamic counselling. He currently teaches at CAPP on difference, including disability and race awareness, and he wi