Author biographies

Dana Amir is a clinical psychologist and a psychoanalyst from the Israeli Psychoanalytic Society. She works in private practice as a psychotherapist and psychoanalyst. She also works in academia as a lecturer at Haifa University. In addition she is a writer and has published four poetry books as well as two non-fiction books: On the Lyricism of the Mind and Cleft Tongue. Dr Amir was the winner of the Bahat Prize for non-fiction original books in 2006 and The Prime-Minister Prize for literature writing in 2012. Her paper The Psychic Organ Point of Autistic Syntax was the winner of the Frances Tustin Memorial Prize in 2011.

Christopher Bonovitz is faculty and supervising analyst at the William Alanson White Institute and faculty analyst at New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and Stephen Mitchell Center For Relational Studies. He is associate editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Journal of Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy.

Paula Conway is a clinical psychologist and Tavistock trained psychoanalytic psychotherapist with 17 years experience working in clinical and community settings with children, young people, families and adults. She is now the director of Grow2Grow, a recovery service for young adults with complex mental health difficulties based at Commonwork, an organic farm and study centre. Her institutional affiliations are BPS (British Psychological Society), TSP (Tavistock Society for Psychotherapists) and HPC (Health Professionals Council).

Nicola Dugmore is an educational psychologist working as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice and in a community setting in Johannesburg, South Africa. She is currently completing her PhD in the area of mother–infant/child psychotherapy at the University of the Witwatersrand.

Viviane Green is programme manager of the MSc and Diploma in Psychodynamic Counselling with Children and Adolescents at Birkbeck College and an ad