Author biographies

Rebecca Bergese is a child and adolescent psychotherapist who trained at the Tavistock Centre and now works with children and parents in private practice; she also offers supervision and teaches on Tavistock courses in London and Belfast. She has a particular interest in infant observation and the application of psychoanalytic ideas to creative development in other fields. Originally trained as a designer, she also works as an artist displaying her paintings across the UK.

Mary Brady, Ph.D., is an adult, adolescent and child psychoanalyst. She is on the Faculty at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis. She is in private practice in San Francisco in the areas of psychoanalysis, psychotherapy and consultation. She 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 later in 2015.

Vijé Franchi is a child psychotherapist (who trained at the Tavistock Clinic, London) and professor in the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences at the University of Geneva. She currently holds the chair of ‘Emotional and relational dimensions of education and training’ at the University of Geneva and co-directs a Master’s degree course in Early Childhood Special Needs Education. She has worked for 10 years as a psychoanalytic child psychotherapist in Paris, where she also runs a Tavistock-model psychoanalytic observational course and clinical training in collaboration with the Centre Martha Harris, Larmor Plage. Her experience with community-based outreach programmes for minority ethnic children and asylum-seeking families in South Africa and France awakened in her a special interest in applying infant observation to training and work with families and professionals in contexts where experiences of trauma, exile and exclusion intersect. Her recent clinical and research interests focus on early childhood intervention, understanding the psycho