Author biographies

Mary Brady is a child, adolescent and adult psychoanalyst in private practice in San Francisco. She is on the faculty of the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis and California Pacific Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry.

Carolyn Hart is a child and adolescent psychotherapist in Sheffield where she works in a specialist team for looked after children. Her interest is the impact of early (relational) trauma on the child and his/her subsequent relationships, with particular reference to findings from neuroscience.

Margaret Lush qualified from the Tavistock in 2008. She now works as a child psychotherapist in a CAMHS clinic in Hampshire, the Tavistock Children's Day Unit and a primary school, through the Bishop Harvey Family Service. She has recently completed her doctoral thesis and this has led to an interest in the research agenda and in the development of some of the wide-ranging research methodologies devised and used by child psychotherapy researchers.

Lynda Miller is a consultant child and adolescent psychotherapist who works in two very different NHS settings. She is head of the Learning and Complex Disabilities Service at the Tavistock Centre, a small multi-disciplinary team, which provides psychotherapy to children, adolescents and adults with learning disabilities and/or complex disabilities including A.S.D. and brain damage. She also works in a CAMHS multi-disciplinary team in Enfield and has a particular interest in working with adolescents. She enjoys teaching on observation and clinical training courses and has done so for many years.

Emma Norris is a clinical psychologist who has worked as a child psychologist in Tier 3 Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services in Bristol for five years. She has also spent five years as a Clinical and Academic Tutor/Lecturer on both the Bristol and Exeter Clinical Psychology Doctorates, convening the child teaching, organising child placements, and supervising trainees' research.

Jo Roger is a child and adolescent