Author biographies

Nurit Bar, MA, is a clinical psychologist who has worked for many years in a private clinic with adults. She teaches in the Communication Sciences and Disorders Department at Ono Academic College, Kiryat Ono, Israel. She also works in the Behavioral Science Department of the Israel Defence Forces.

Jocelyn Catty is a child and adolescent psychotherapist, trained at the Tavistock Clinic and an adult psychodynamic psychotherapist (FPC, BPC), trained at WPF. She is currently Research Lead for the child psychotherapy doctoral training at the Tavistock, co-chairs the ACP Research Committee and is a member of the steering committee of the Society for Psychotherapy Research – UK Chapter. She also works in private practice with adults.

Yari Gvion, PhD, is a supervising clinical psychologist who has worked for many years in a psychiatric hospital and in a private clinic with children and adolescents. She teaches in the clinical division of the Psychology Departments at Bar Ilan University and Tel Aviv Jaffa Academic College. She also teaches on the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program at Tel Aviv University.

Amanda Keenan completed her child psychotherapy training and doctoral research at the Tavistock Clinic. She has worked in different CAMHS settings, initially as an occupational therapist prior to training as a child psychotherapist. She currently works as Lead Child Psychotherapist within CAMHS in Leicester.

Graham Music, PhD, is a consultant child and adolescent psychotherapist at the Tavistock and Portman Clinic and an adult psychotherapist in private practice. His publications include Affect and Emotion (2001); Nurturing Natures: Attachment and Children’s Emotional, Sociocultural and Brain Development (2011) and the forthcoming The Good Life: Wellbeing and the New Science of Altruism, Selfishness and Immorality. He organises and teaches on various psychotherapy and other trainings at the Tavistock Clinic and elsewhere in Britain and abroad.

Nick Sanderson is a child and ado