Notes on Contributors

Aysha Begum, PhD, CPsychol, AFBPsP, is a principal clinical psychologist and systemic practitioner working in the National Health Service with children/young people, parents/couples, and families. She brings twenty years’ clinical, teaching, and academic experience to her current role as psychology lead in a large innercity child and adolescent mental health service. Her academic specialty is in psychiatric epidemiology and her clinical interests are in motherhood, fatherhood, and parental mental health. She is also a UKCP-registered psychoanalytic psychotherapist and a Bowlby Centre member with a private practice where she works with individual adults, adolescents, couples, and families. She is the former editor-in-chief of Attachment: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis. Email: aysha.begum3@outlook.com

Kate Brown is a Bowlby Centre trained UKCP-registered attachment-based psychoanalytic psychotherapist who started her career in therapeutic communities working with adults and adolescents individually and in groups. She has worked with young mothers and in community psychiatric services with patients’ families. She has also worked with former servicemen who had experienced complex trauma. She is a course tutor at The Bowlby Centre, and has delivered freelance training. Kate completed an MSc in psychotherapeutic approaches in mental health in 2012, and completed her PhD at Middlesex University entitled “Where is the love? A psychoanalytic history of the Cotswold Community”. Email:

Prophecy Coles is a retired psychotherapist. Her interest has always been in writing about neglected figures within the psychoanalytic world. Her books include The Importance of Sibling Relationships in the Psychoanalytic World , The Uninvited Guest from the Unremembered Past , The Shadow of the Second Mother , Psychoanalytic and Psychotherapeutic Perspectives on Stepfamilies and Stepparenting , Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Illegitimacy, Adoption