Author biographies

Stella Acquarone, PhD, is an adult and child psychoanalytic psychotherapist and founder of the Parent Infant Clinic and School of Infant Mental Health in 1990 and of the International Pre-Autistic Network (an international charity registered in the UK). Based in London, she has worked for 32 years with parents and infants in the NHS as well as privately, pioneering and laying the foundations of parent-infant psychotherapy. She has presented workshops and conferences and trained professionals all over the world and has published many papers and several books, including Infant–Parent Psychotherapy: A Handbook for Professionals, Signs of Autism in Infants: Recognition and Early Intervention and Upalala: Helping the Helpers. She has been researching and working with infants with special needs and autistic tendencies since 1980, and her ReStart Special Child Focus programme offers an intensive early-intervention treatment approach administered by a multidisciplinary therapy team and based in psychoanalytic thinking.

Catalina Bronstein is a training and supervising analyst of the British Institute of Psychoanalysis and a member of the Association of Child Psychotherapists. She is an adult and child and adolescent psychoanalyst. She studied medicine and psychiatry in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She later trained as a child psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic, London and as a psychoanalyst at the British Institute of Psychoanalysis. She is Visiting Professor at the Psychoanalysis Unit, University College London and was the former London Editor of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis. She has published many papers and chapters and edited the book Kleinian Theory, A Contemporary Perspective. She works privately with adults and adolescents and since 1987 she has worked at the Brent Centre for Adolescents. She is currently editing a book on psychosomatics.

Joshua Durban is a training child and adult psychoanalyst at the Israeli Psychoanalytic Society, Jerusalem, where he