Author biographies

Rebecca Bergese is a child psychotherapist working in London in private practice and teaching on Tavistock courses in London, Belfast and Florence. She is also an artist regularly showing her work in group and solo shows across the UK. She writes commentaries and short articles on contemporary art and is interested in researching mistakes.

Elizabeth Edginton is Research and Development Lead at the Northern School of Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy, and also works in CAMHS. She trained at the Birmingham Trust for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, and was formerly a university lecturer in Cultural Studies.

Angela Evans is a Tavistock-trained child and adolescent psychotherapist working in a specialist Looked After Children team within a CAMHS service in Sussex, and in private practice. Prior to this, she worked for 20 years in teaching, and specialised in working with children with special educational needs, including posts as a Special Educational Needs Co-ordinator for primary schools. She trains foster carers and social workers, and consults to Fostering teams in Children’s Services. She has a particular interest in attachment theory, and in applied psychoanalytic thinking to networks dealing with challenging children and families.

Carolyn Hart is a child and adolescent psychotherapist who works in a specialist CAMH team for looked after children in Sheffield. She has a particular interest in integrating findings from biology and neuroscience into her work with children who have suffered early relational trauma and its consequences.

Sue Kegerreis is a child and adolescent psychotherapist and adult psychotherapist. She is Director of the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Essex and has taught on a wide range of professional and academic courses. As a clinician she has practised in school, hospital and CAMHS settings and in private practice. She is author of Psychodynamic Counselling with Children and Adolescents: An Introduction (Palgrave Macmillan, 2