Author biographies

Anne Alvarez (Ph.D.) is a consultant child and adolescent psychotherapist and retired Co-Convener of the Autism Service at the Tavistock Clinic. Anne is a Visiting Professor at the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Society. Anne is widely published: author of Live Company: Psychotherapy with Autistic, Borderline, Deprived and Abused Children (2002, Routledge) joint editor with Sue Reid of, Autism and Personality: Findings from the Tavistock Autism Workshop (1999, Routledge). Her work is the subject of Being Alive: Building on the Work of Anne Alvarez (Ed Edwards, J.) (2001, Routledge).

Paddy Martin. For the last seven years, Paddy Martin has worked at the North Middlesex Hospital Paediatric Liaison Team and has an interest in psychosomatic presentation and illness, as well as the emotional impact of acute and chronic illness stretching back to even earlier work in nursing and rehabilitation work with blind and partially sighted people. For the last three years, he has worked for the Court Assessment Service at the Anna Freud Centre and developed an interest in the intergenerational impact and transmission of attachment patterns and the link between parents with personality disorders and disorganised attachment.

He also teaches a module on intergenerational transmission of attachment for the Parent-Infant Project at the Anna Freud Centre, as well as a series of seminars on Psychosomatic Disorders for the third-year trainees at the British Association of Psychotherapy.

Claudia McLoughlin is a child and adolescent psychotherapist who qualified from the Tavistock Centre in January 2002. Since then she has worked within the Islington CAMHS Service. Having been a special needs teacher before her therapeutic training, Claudia has a particular interest in working in partnership with alternative educational settings in trying to reach socially excluded and marginalised young people and their families. She is also interested in the creative use of work discussion groups in various c