Author biographies

Tessa Baradon came from the field of Public Health to child psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. She has worked in the public and private sectors, and has been responsible for the planning and provision of services for parents and infants in the National Health Service and initiated and developed the Parent Infant Project at The Anna Freud Centre. She is a practicing child therapist and supervisor, and writes and lectures on child psychoanalysis and parent infant psychotherapy. She is Member of the Association of Child Psychotherapists and the Association of Child Psychoanalysis, Inc.

Kirsten Bland worked as a research psychologist at The Anna Freud Centre. She carried out the interviews and assessments with the mothers and babies in this study. She has also worked on several other parent–infant outreach studies. She is currently completing her training in Clinical Psychology at the University of Edinburgh.

Diana Cant is a consultant child and adolescent psychotherapist with Childhood First (formerly the Peper Harow Foundation) and in private practice. She also acts as consultant to the staff teams at a number of CAMHS clinics in Kent. She has worked in several therapeutic communities, including 10 years at the Caldecott Community, and has a particular interest in residential work with severely damaged children. She is a visiting tutor on the adult psychotherapy training course at the University of Kent, teaching Infant Observation, and a tutor at Middlesex University.

Simon Cregeen is Head of Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy in Manchester and Salford CAMHS. He also teaches on the clinical training at the Northern School of Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy. His particular interest is in work with Looked After Children, carers and networks, and adoptive families.

Peter Fonagy Ph.D., FBA, is Freud Memorial Professor of Psychoanalysis and Director of the Sub-Department of Clinical Health Psychology at University College London; Chief Executive of the Anna Freud Centre, L