Author biographies

Andrew Briggs trained at the Tavistock Clinic. He is head of Child Psychotherapy in West Kent NHS and Social Care Trust. He has particular clinical interests in children with autistic spectrum difficulties and children looked after by the State. His other publications include a consultation to a children's home, the application of observational techniques to clinical work with a difficult to reach young boy, and he edited Surviving Space; Papers on Infant Observation (Karnac, 2002), a festschrift for Esther Bick.

Caroline Case trained as a child psychotherapist at the SIHR after a long career in art therapy. She works as a child psychotherapist in a Child and Family Mental Health Service in the NHS in Bristol as well as in private practice as an analytical art therapist. She has published widely on art therapy, including co-editing Working with Children in Art Therapy (Routledge, 1990) and being co-author of The Handbook of Art Therapy (Routledge, 1992), both with Tessa Dalley. Her new book, Imagining Animals: Art, Psychotherapy and Primitive States of Mind, was published this year (Routledge, 2005).

Judith Edwards is a consultant child and adolescent psychotherapist teaching and supervising on various courses at the Tavistock Clinic, where she is course tutor for the MA in

Psychoanalytic Studies. Apart from papers in academic journals in both Great Britain and abroad, she has written chapters for several books and edited Being Alive (Routledge, 2001) on the work of Anne Alvarez. She was joint-editor of the Journal of Child Psychotherapy from 1996 to 2000.

Elsa First trained as a child psychotherapist at the Anna Freud Centre (then the Hampstead Clinic) London. She is a child and adult psychoanalyst (IPA) in private practice in New York City. She teaches and supervises in the Parent Infant Psychotherapy Program of the Columbia Psychoanalytic Center, and in the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. She has recently been develop