Author biographies

Anne Alvarez, Ph.D., 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 Deprartment, 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.

Jay Frankel, Ph.D., is an executive editor of the journal Psychoanalytic Dialogues, adjunct associate professor in the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, on the teaching and supervising faculty of the Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program at the William Alanson White Institute, and former co-director of the Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis. He is a co-author of the book Relational Child Psychotherapy, as well as many journal articles and book chapters on topics including play, identification, trauma and the work of Sándor Ferenczi.

Nicholas Midgley is a child and adolescent psychotherapist at the Marlborough Family Service, London; joint editor of the Bulletin of the Association of Child Psychotherapy; and a lecturer at the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex, where he is director of graduate studies for the Professional Doctorate in Psychoanalytic (and Analytical) Psychotherapy. He also teaches psychoanalytic theory and supervises qualitative research on the M.Sc. in Psychoanalytic Developmental Psychology at UCL/The Anna Freud Centre, where he is currently working on a process-outcome study of child psychoanalysis. His clinical doctorate at Univers