List of Contributors

Kate Brown started her career in therapeutic communities working first with adults with a variety of mental health difficulties, and then with adolescents individually and in groups. She has worked with young mothers, and in mainstream community psychiatric services with patients' families. She has also provided time limited therapy with former servicemen who had experienced complex trauma. Kate completed her clinical training as an attachment based psychoanalytic psychotherapist in 2009, and registered with the UKCP in 2011. She teaches fourth year students about psychosis and completed an MSc in psychotherapeutic approaches in mental health in 2012. Email: katebrownpsychotherapist@gmail.com

David John Constantine (born ) is a British, Lancashire-born poet, author, and translator. He is a Fellow of Queen's College, Oxford University. He was until recently the co-editor of the literary journal Modern Poetry in Translation. His collections of poetry include Madder, Watching for Dolphins, Caspar Hauser, The Pelt of Wasps, Something for the Ghosts, Collected Poems, and Nine Fathom Deep. He is a translator of Hölderlin, Brecht, Goethe, Kleist, Michaux, and Jaccottet. He is also author of one novel, Davies and Fields of Fire: A Life of Sir William Hamilton. He has published four collections of short stories, Back at the Spike, the highly acclaimed Under the Dam , The Shieling , and the award winning Tea at the Midland and Other Stories. He lives in Oxford with his wife Helen.

Tamsin Cottis is an integrative arts child psychotherapist. She has over twenty-five years of working with people with learning disabilities. She is a co-founder and former assistant director of Respond, the UK's leading provider of psychotherapy to children and adults with learning disabilities. In recent years Tamsin has specialised in the assessment and psychotherapy treatment of young people with learning disabilities who have sexually harmful behaviour. Currently consultant clinical supervisor at