Author biographies

Dimitris C. Anagnostopoulos (M.D, Ph.D.) is child and adolescent psychiatrist and psychoanalytic psychotherapist and a member of the Hellenic Association of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. Since 2005 he has been the Chair of the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Section of the World Psychiatric Association. He is Assistant Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry of the University of Athens, and Director of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Unit, 1st Psychiatric Department, Athens University Medical School. He is the author and co-author of more than 140 published scientific papers.

Dimitris Anastasopoulos (M.D, Ph.D.) is a training psychoanalytic psychotherapist and supervisor working with adults, adolescents and children. He was trained in Athens and at the Tavistock Clinic in London. His main interest is adolescence. He is a founding member of the Hellenic Association of Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and for the last eight years he has been Vice Chair and Co-ordinator of the Child and Adolescent Section of the European Federation of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (EFPP). He has written numerous articles and book chapters, 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 also chief editor of a new EFPP series.

Saralea E. Chazan (Ph.D.) is a clinical psychologist practising in Greenwich Village, New York City. She is an invited researcher in the Steinhardt School, New York University and a research associate at the Pacella Parent Child Center, The New York Psychoanalytic Institute.

Esther Cohen (Ph.D.) is a faculty member and the former head of the Child-Clinical Psychology Program at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. She is an accredited specialist and s