Author biographies

Katie Argent is a consultant child and adolescent psychotherapist in the Fostering, Adoption and Kinship Care Team at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust. She is also the organising tutor for the MA in Psychoanalytic Observational Studies at the Tavistock. She has a particular interest in taking child psychotherapy approaches outside the clinic and in the relevance of psychoanalytic thinking to non-clinical professionals working directly with children, adolescents and families in the community.

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 December 2015.

Elena Della Rosa is a child psychotherapist who trained at the Tavistock. She is currently working at Bexley CAMHS where she does most of her work within an Adolescent team. She is interested in issues of therapeutic technique and is writing a research doctorate on the role of transference interpretations in short-term psychotherapy with adolescents suffering from depression.

Judith Edwards (Ph.D) is a retired consultant child and adolescent psychotherapist who has taught and supervised on many courses at the Tavistock Clinic, where she has worked in various capacities since the 1980s. A past editor of the Journal of Child Psychotherapy, she has published her work in papers and academic books internationally. Apart from her clinical experience, one of her principal interests has been in the links between psychoanalysis, culture and the arts, as well as making psychoanalytic ideas accessible to a wide audience. Her memoir, Pieces of Molly: An Ordinary Life, was published by Karnac in November 2014.

Robert Fleming is a consultant child and adolescent psychotherapist with South L