Author biographies

Mary Brady, PhD, is a child, adolescent and adult psychoanalyst in private practice in San Francisco. She is in the faculty of the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis. Dr Brady has had several papers published including one in The Journal of Child Psychotherapy. In 2010, she won the American Psychoanalytic Association's Ralph Roughton Award for her paper: ‘Sometimes we are prejudiced against ourselves: Internalized homophobia and coming out in an adolescent boy’. She teaches on a variety of topics including dreams, eating disorders and bodily symptoms in adolescence.

Kristen Carey, PsyD, is in private practice in San Francisco and Oakland, where she sees children, adolescents and adults. She co-founded Kids Connect, a bereavement group therapy programme for children who have lost a parent or sibling. She is also an instructor at the Access Institute and supervisor for clinicians in training at the Ann Martin Center.

Akasha Devi has recently changed her name from Claudia Mc Loughlin, through joining the Triratna Buddhist Order. She is a child and adolescent psychotherapist trained at the Tavistock Clinic and has been working in the Islington Community CAMH Service in Inner London for the past ten years. She has a particular interest in working with hard to reach and marginalised children and families in innovative and creative ways.

Louise Emanuel is a consultant child and adolescent psychotherapist based in the Child and Family Department of the Tavistock Clinic, London. She is a lead for local under fives services, convenor of the infant mental health workshop and course organiser for the post- graduate diploma/MA in infant mental health and early years’ development. She has taught widely in the UK and abroad. She also has an interest in working with fostered and adopted children, children with special needs and in organisational consultancy. Besides having papers published in journals, she has co-edited the book, What Can the Matter Be? Therapeutic Interventions