Author biographies

Janet Anderson has worked as the Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist for North Essex Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust since 1995 and has responsibility for the Child Psychotherapy service in the West Essex clinics. Jan has completed doctoral research into Risk-Taking, Dangerous Behaviour in Childhood and is leading a research project for a group of child psychotherapists in North Essex.

Donald Campbell is past President of the British Psychoanalytical Society and former Secretary General of the International Psychoanalytic Association. He worked as a child and adolescent psychotherapist at various child guidance centres, the Brent Consultation Centre, and for 30 years at the Portman Clinic where he also served as Chairman. He has published on the subjects of violence, suicide, child sexual abuse, fetishism and adolescence.

Tessa Dalley is a child and adolescent psychotherapist working at the Northgate Clinic and in the Parent Infant Project at the Anna Freud Centre. She is also an experienced art therapist working as a clinical supervisor, in private practice and has published a number of books and articles.

Miranda Davies is a professional member of the Society of Analytical Psychology and, with Elizabeth Urban, is Co-consultant to the Child Analytic Training of the Society (due to close in November 2006). She is co-editor, with Mara Sidoli, of Jungian Child Psychotherapy and has had papers published in the Journal of Analytical Psychology and the Journal of Child Psychotherapy. Now retired, she has worked in CAMH Services in Uxbridge and High Wiycombe, and later in private practice in Stroud.

Sarah Desmarais practised as a fine artist for two decades before completing an MSc at the Anna Freud Centre and embarking upon a child psychotherapy training. She is now a third year trainee at the BAP and works at Stevenage CAMHS, Hertfordshire. Current research interests include the experience of clinicians working psychoanalytically with dying patients, and th