Notes on Contributors

Marion Bower recently retired as a consultant social worker at the Child and Family Department, Tavistock Clinic. She is a BPC-registered Adult Psychotherapist and a member of the Editorial Board of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis. Her publications include Psychoanalytic Theory for Social Work Practice: Thinking Under Fire ; Addictive States of Mind ; and most recently, The Life and Work of Joan Riviere .

Sally Box is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist, now retired. She started work at Belmont Rehabilitation unit (later the Henderson Hospital) and retained her interest in therapeutic communities and family dynamics throughout her career here and in the USA. From 1969 she further trained and worked at the Tavistock Clinic, practising and teaching in relation to individuals, couples, families, and institutions. In 1983, she started moving to Bristol where she founded The Bridge Foundation for Psychotherapy and the Arts which she chaired until 2001. She continued as patron of The Bridge and member of The Severnside Institute for Psychotherapy, working as a training therapist in private practice, teaching, and occasionally writing.

Christopher Clulow, PhD, is a consultant couple psychoanalytic psychotherapist, a Senior Fellow of the Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology and past Director of Tavistock Relationships, London. He has published extensively on marriage, partnerships, parenthood, and couple psychotherapy, most recently from an attachment perspective. He is a Fellow of the Centre for Social Policy, Dartington, a member of the Editorial Board of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis, a series editor for the Library of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis, and a member of the Scientific Council and Review Board of the International Association of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis. He maintains a clinical and training practice in London and from his home in St Albans.

Brad Freeman is a senior clinical psychologist who has spent most of his career working with children, adol