Author biographies

Nancy Berlin is a clinical developmentalist, child and adolescent psychologist, in private practice in Larchmont, New York, for almost 13 years. She received her doctorate in developmental psychology at the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, Yeshiva University. Following that course of studies, she went on to obtain her certificate in Adult Analysis from the Westchester Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, where she is currently attending the Supervisory Program, and teaching a course on The Development of The Self.

Carol Broughton is a parent–infant psychotherapist in the Parent–Infant Project at the Anna Freud Centre and a child and adolescent psychotherapist in the NHS. She is nursery consultant to a west London Children's Centre. She is course tutor and convenor of the parent–infant mental health module at the Anna Freud Centre and has recently completed a doctoral research project on the assessment of risk in the parent–infant relationship. She teaches and writes on the subject of the parent–infant relationship.

Louise Emanuel is consultant child psychotherapist, Child and Family Department, Tavistock Clinic, London where she is Head of the under-fives service and course organiser PGDiP/MA in infant mental health. She is the author of Understanding Your Three Year Old and co-editor of: ‘What Can the Matter be?’ Therapeutic Interventions with Parents, Infants and Young Children.

Annette Mendelsohn is a consultant child and adolescent psychotherapist at the Royal Free NHS Trust and co-ordinator of a liaison service to NICU. She has a special interest in parent–infant psychotherapy in the hospital setting with chronically or terminally ill babies and young traumatised children. She was Consultant Child Psychotherapist for over 10 years in the child and family team at the Traumatic Stress Clinic, London, where she worked extensively with traumatically bereaved under-fives. She has been a teacher of Infant Observation seminars for a number of