Author biographies

Simonetta M.G. Adamo is Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Milan, Bicocca. She is a child and adolescent psychotherapist, member of the Tavistock Society of Psychotherapists and has taught on many Tavistock model observation courses in Italy. She has published papers in academic journals internationally, and has contributed to and edited many books on topics such as adolescence, psychodynamic counselling, Asperger's syndrome, the imaginary companion, young child observation, projects aimed at improving child and adolescent mental health in educational contexts, and psychotherapy in paediatric oncology wards. For the past 15 years, she has been co-organising tutor of the short course ‘Working with disruptive adolescents’ held at the Tavistock Clinic.

Louise Allnutt is a child and adolescent psychotherapist who works in a child development team with children who have complex disabilities, and an inner city CAMHS clinic that specialises in court assessments. She trained at the Tavistock Clinic, where she now also teaches on courses in Infant Mental Health and Psychoanalytic Observation Studies.

Maggie Fagan is a child and adolescent psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic where she is a member of the Fostering, Adoption and Kinship Care Team and also co-convener of the Fostering and Adoption Workshop. She has a specialist interest in late adoption. She is also the assessment tutor and liaison tutor on the Observational Studies Course at the Tavistock Clinic.

Pasqual J. Pantone, PhD, is Director of Clinical Education, Fellow, Training and Supervising Analyst in the Psychoanalytic Division of the William Alanson White Institute in New York. He is also former co-director and co-founder of the Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program at the William Alanson White Institute. He is a supervisor at the Northwest Center for Psychoanalysis in Portland, Oregon. He is co-author of Relational Child Psychotherapy (2002), published by Other Press.

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