List of Contributors

Jane Barclay qualified as a therapeutic counsellor in 2000. An integral part of her training has been the relationship she created with her own therapist, which has informed and continues to inform her practice. She is currently processing her experiences as a boarding-school girl after recently participating in group therapy workshops facilitated by Boarding Concern, and, in the autumn of 2009, simultaneously made a successful application for accreditation by UKAHPP. Email: janebarclay@mfdl.org.uk

Beatrice Beebe, PhD, is a psychoanalyst and an infant researcher. She is Clinical Professor of Medical Psychology (in Psychiatry), College of Physicians & Surgeons, Columbia University, New York State Psychiatric Institute; a member of faculty at the Columbia Psychoanalytic Center, the Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity, and the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis; co-author with Jaffe et al. of Rhythms of Dialogue in Infancy (Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, ); author with Lachmann of Infant Research and Adult Treatment: Co-Constructing Interactions (Analytic Press, ); and author with Knoblauch, Rustin, and Sorter of Forms of Intersubjectivity in Infant Research and Adult Treatment (Other Press, ). She has a forthcoming monograph in the journal Attachment and Human Development, The Origins of 12-Month Attachment: A Microanalysis of 4-Month Mother- Infant Interaction. She is in private practice in New York City, specializing in adult psychoanalysis and mother-infant treatment. Currently, she directs a primary prevention programme for mothers who were pregnant and widowed on 9/11. Email:

Kenneth Corvo, PhD, is an associate professor on the faculty of the School of Social Work at Syracuse University. He teaches in the areas of social and behavioural theory and family violence. Dr Corvo has had over twenty years of clinical, scholarly, and programme development