Author Biographies

Neil Altman is co-editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues: A Journal of Relational Perspectives and Associate Clinical Professor in the Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis at New York University. He is author of The Analyst in the Inner City: Race, Class and Culture through a Psychoanalytic Lens, and co-author of Relational Child Therapy.

Anne Alvarez, PhD, M.A.C.P., trained as a clinical psychologist in Canada and the USA before training as a child and adolescent psychotherapist in the UK. She is an honorary consultant child and adolescent psychotherapist (and retired Co-Convener of the Autism Service), Child and Family Department, Tavistock Clinic, London. She is author of Live Company: Psychotherapy with Autistic, Borderline, Deprived and Abused Children and has edited, with Susan Reid, Autism and Personality: Findings from the Tavistock Autism Workshop. A book in her honour, edited by Judith Edwards, entitled Being Alive: Building on the Work of Anne Alvarez was published in 2002. She was Visiting Professor at the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Society in November 2005.

Philip Crockatt trained as a clinical psychologist and adult psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic and as a psychoanalyst at the London Institute of Psychoanalysis and has worked in private practice for many years. He was director of the Camden Psychotherapy Unit for 10 years and of the London Clinic of Psychoanalysis for 3 years. He works currently in private practice and as a consultant at the London Clinic of Psychoanalysis. He is a training analyst and supervisor for several psychotherapy trainings and teaches psychoanalytic theory at the Lincoln Centre for Psychotherapy in London.

Louise Emanuel is a consultant child and adolescent psychotherapist, and a member of staff of the Child and Family Department, Tavistock Clinic, where she is Chair of the Under Fives Service and the Infant Mental Health Workshop. She is course organiser of the MA in Infant Mental Health, and part of t