Author biographies

Diana Cant is a consultant child and adolescent psychotherapist with the Peper Harow Foundation and in private practice. She also acts as consultant to the staff teams at a number of CAMHS clinics in Kent. She has worked in several therapeutic communities, including 10 years at the Caldecott Community, and has a particular interest in residential work with severely damaged children. She is a visiting tutor on the adult psychotherapy training course at the University of Kent, teaching infant observation. She is also an external examiner at the Tavistock Clinic and at the University of Reading.

Ann Horne is a member of the BAP and SIHR and an Honorary Member of ČSPAP, the Czech Society for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. She trained as a child and adolescent psychotherapist in the Independent tradition at the British Association of Psychotherapists where she served terms of office as head of the training and later of post-graduate development for child psychotherapists. She teaches and supervises at the BAP, Anna Freud Centre, SIHR and in Prague. Recently retired from the Portman Clinic in London, she has a particular interest in the child's use of the body in delinquency, abusing or seemingly seeking perverse solutions.

Angela Joyce formerly worked as a psychiatric social worker with ILEA. She then trained as a psychotherapist with the Guild of Psychotherapists and, subsequently as a psychoanalyst at the British Psychoanalytic Society and as a child analyst at the Anna Freud Centre. She has a particular interest in infancy and works as part of the Parent-Infant Project at the Anna Freud Centre. She taught child development there as an honorary lecturer with UCL for 8 years and now teaches mother – infant observation.

Jenny Kenrick is a consultant child psychotherapist teaching on clinical trainings at the Tavistock Clinic, BTPP and in Italy. Until recently she was co-convenor of the Fostering and Adoption Workshop and a member of the Fostering and Adoption Team at the Ta