Author biographies

ERRATUM – Issue 33.2 The author biography for Pia Eresund in issue 33.2 erroneously referred to the author as ‘He’ instead of ‘She’.

Dimitris Anastasopoulos is a training psychoanalytic psychotherapist and supervisor working with adults, adolescents and children. He trained in Athens and at the Tavistock Clinic in London. His main interest is adolescence. He is a founder member of the Hellenic Association of Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and for the last six years he has been vice chair and coordinator of the Child and Adolescent Section of the European Federation of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (EFPP). He has written articles for IRPA (1988), JCP (1997) and PP (1999) and is co-editor and contributing author to three books published by Karnac, London: Countertransference in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Children and Adolescents (1996); Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of Severely Disturbed Adolescents (1999); The Therapist at Work. Personal Factors Affecting the Analytic Process (2004). He is currently joint editor with Monica Lanyado of a new EFPP series.

Robin Balbernie is currently consultant child and adolescent psychotherapist in Gloucestershire CAMHS. For two days a week, he works with the Children's Centres in Cheltenham, as lead of the team providing an Infant Mental Health Service.

Sarah Desmarais is completing her child and adolescent psychotherapy training at the British Association of Psychotherapists, and works at Stevenage CAMHS, Hertfordshire. Current research interests include the history of innovation and dissent in psychoanalytic theorising, and ways in which dominant models of causality have shaped the psychoanalytic worldview.

Margaret Flynn is a Principal Research Fellow in the Centre for Health and Social Care Research Fellow at Sheffield Hallam University. Current work is with family caregivers and primary service users. She is an editor of the Journal of Adult Protection. She is leading a review of residential care services f