Author biographies

Lida Anagnostaki (Ph.D.) is a child and adolescent psychotherapist working in private practice and at the ‘Perivolaki’ mental health centre in Athens, Greece, an institution providing psychotherapy for children with pervasive developmental disorders. She is also a teaching and research associate at the University of Athens.

Tessa Baradon came from the field of public health to child psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. She has worked in the public and private sectors and has been responsible for the planning and provision of services for parents and infants in the NHS and at the Anna Freud Centre where she developed and manages the Parent Infant Project. She is a practising child therapist and supervisor and writes and lectures on child psychoanalysis and parent–infant psychotherapy. She is a member of the Association of Child Psychotherapists and the Association of Child Psychoanalysis, Inc.

Kathleen Fargione is an adolescent and adult psychotherapist in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She worked for nine years at a day treatment centre for emotionally disturbed adolescents. She teaches and co-facilitates a consultation group at the Minnesota Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and is an adjunct professor at the graduate social work school at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. She has a private practice in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Vijé Franchi is a psychologist and trained as a psychoanalytic child psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic. She currently holds the chair of ‘Emotional and relational dimensions of education and training’ at the University of Geneva and is responsible for the Masters in Early Childhood Special Education. She works as a child psychotherapist in Paris, where she also runs Tavistock-model infant and young child observation seminars and work discussion groups. Her recent clinical and research interests focus on early childhood prevention and intervention and understanding the psychoanalytic process of recovery in