Author biographies

Alessandra Cavalli (PhD) trained as a child and an adult analyst at the Society of Analytical Psychology. She works in private practice and teaches at the Tavistock Clinic and at the Society of Analytical Psychology. She is the organising tutor of the Tavistock Certificate ‘Understanding unconscious communication in children and adolescents’ which is delivered in Mexico and in Moscow by two groups of London-based child psychotherapists.

Sue Coulson is a child and adolescent psychotherapist who initially trained and worked at the Tavistock Clinic and St George’s Hospital. Sue worked for many years in Islington CAMHS, where she was latterly Head of Child Psychotherapy. She currently teaches at the Tavistock Clinic and supervises trainees from the Tavistock and NSCAP, as well as qualified child and adolescent psychotherapists.

Sue Kegerreis is Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Essex. A psychotherapist (both child/adolescent and adult) by training, she has practised in health, education and community settings as well as in private practice. She has taught widely, both on psychotherapy/counselling trainings and on courses offering psychodynamic understanding to those working in non-clinical roles. She supervises students pursuing professional doctorates and PhDs, and is a member of the Research Committees of both the ACP and the BPF. Sue has published numerous articles in professional journals, is Managing Editor of the Journal Psychodynamic Practice and her book Psychodynamic Counselling with Children and Adolescents appeared in 2010.

Monica Lanyado was the founding course organiser of the Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Training at the Scottish Institute of Human Relations, Edinburgh. She is a training supervisor at the British Psychotherapy Foundation and is joint Series Editor, with Ann Horne, of the Independent Psychoanalytic Approaches with Children and Adolescents (IPACA) Series. Her publications include The Presence of