Author biographies

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

Eve Ashley is a child psychotherapist who was trained at the Tavistock clinic and now works in CAMHS in Sussex. She has worked for over 10 years in specialist LAC teams and has particular interests in working with adolescents whose parents have had significant mental health problems and with children and young people from ethnic minorities. She has recently completed her training as a psychoanalytic couple psychotherapist at the Tavistock Centre for Couple Relations and has contributed to the course ‘Psychodynamic Psychotherapy with Couples’ in the Adult Department at the Tavistock Clinic.

Mary Brady, Ph.D., is an adult, adolescent and child psychoanalyst. She is in the faculty of the San Francisco Centre for Psychoanalysis. She works in private practice in San Francisco and also co-leads a consultation group on ‘The Treatment of Adolescents and Young Adults’. Her book, The Body in Adolescence: Psychic Isolation and Physical Symptoms, will be published by Routledge in 2015.

Carol Broughton, Ph.D., is a consultant parent–infant psychotherapist in the Parent–Infant Project at the Anna Freud Centre. She works in the NHS as a child and adolescent psychotherapist in a CAMHS service in West London and as a parent-infant psychotherapist in a specialist perinatal mental health unit at Homerton University Hospital. She has a doctorate from University College London and a research interest in the assessment of risk in the early parent-infant relationship. She has been developing the Parent–Infant Relational Assessment Tool (PIRAT) and is currently involved in ongoing reliability and validation studies using data from the Anna Freud Centre Parent-Infant Psychot