Notes on Contributors

Polly Casey, PhD, held the post of Research and Data Manager at Tavistock Relationships. She has been conducting research on families and family relationships for almost ten years, first within academia and more recently in a more applied sense within the voluntary sector. She completed her PhD at the University of Cambridge in 2012, and has published on areas including assisted conception families, same-sex families, and relationship support.

Hejan Epözdemir, PhD, is a clinical psychologist, psychotherapist, and part-time faculty member working and living in Istanbul. Dr Epözdemir has her own private clinical practice and provides lectures and clinical supervision to both undergraduate and graduate students at several universities. She is interested in psychoanalytic psychotherapy models, particularly object relations theory, and works with adults, couples, and families.

Steve Isaacs, MB, B Chir, MRCP, MRCPsych., is a retired consultant child & adolescent psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. He trained at the Maudsley Hospital, the Tavistock Clinic, and at the Institute of Psychoanalysis, and is a member of the International Advisory Board of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis.

Brett Kahr has worked in the mental health field for over thirty-five years. A Senior Fellow at Tavistock Relationships and the Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology, and Senior Clinical Research Fellow in Psychotherapy and Mental Health at the Centre for Child Mental Health in London, he is Honorary Visiting Professor in the Department of Media, Culture, and Language at the University of Roehampton. A former Chair of the British Society of Couple Psychotherapists and Counsellors, he also serves as Series Co-Editor of The Library of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis for Karnac Books. He is the author or editor of nine books, including D. W. Winnicott: A Biographical Portrait, and Sex and the Psyche, and most recently, Life Lessons from Freud and Tea with Winnicott, with, in press, Coffee with Freud