List of Contributors

Dr Robert U. Akeret received his doctorate in psychology from Columbia University and his certificate in psychoanalysis from the William Alanson White Institute, where he trained with Rollo May and Erich Fromm. A past president of the Association of Psychoanalytic Psychology, he is the author of five books including Photoanalysis, an original work on analysing photographs for psychological meaning and Tales from A Traveling Couch where, after thirty years, he revisits his most memorable patients. He just completed writing, Opening Pandora's Box: When No One Is Looking, the Analyst Throws in the Real Thing. E-mail: ruakeret@gmail.com

Kate Brown is a Bowlby Centre trained UKCP registered attachment-based psychoanalytic psychotherapist who started her career in therapeutic communities working with adults with a variety of mental health difficulties, and 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. She teaches at The Bowlby Centre and has also delivered freelance training. Kate completed an MSc in psychotherapeutic approaches in mental health in 2012. She is a member of the Attachment Journal editorial group and former chair of the clinical forum at The Bowlby Centre. Kate has recently begun a PhD in the psychoanalysis department at Middlesex University in the history of the therapeutic community movement and the treatment of trauma. She has recently moved to Bournemouth where she will be developing a private practice. E-mail:

Joseph Burrows seems to be an Australian poet who wrote The Road That Has No End in about 1925. “Seems” to be because despite searching to find out more about Joseph Burrows the fact that the poem appeared in Selections from the Australian Poets published in 1925 is the only information we could find on him.