Author biographies

Louise Allnutt is a senior child and adolescent psychotherapist at the Tavistock Centre. She works in the newly formed Returning Families Unit. Until recently Louise was the lead child psychotherapist within a specialist CAMHS for children with developmental difficulties and disabilities. She has also taught on many aspects of the clinical training including theory, supervision and leading the autism workshop and has research interests in the area of early intervention with children at risk of autism and other social communication disorders.

Lida Anagnostaki is a psychologist and child and adolescent psychotherapist working in private practice in Athens, Greece. She also works as a research and teaching associate at the University of Athens. She is a full member of the Hellenic Association of Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy.

Robert Fleming is originally from Scotland, and became a social worker in South London before working in a child guidance clinic in America. He returned to the UK and trained as a child and adolescent psychotherapist at the Tavistock and later as an adult psychotherapist at the British Association of Psychotherapists (now BPF). Throughout his professional life he has had an interest in the substitute care of children unable to live with their birth parents. He completed his doctoral research in this area. Robert is currently a consultant child and adolescent psychotherapist with South London and Maudsley NHS Trust.

Lorna French is an assistant research psychologist in the Children, Young Adults and Families directorate at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust.

Marianne Haugvik trained as a clinical psychologist at the University of Oslo, Norway. She is a specialist in child and adolescent psychology and holds the position of Chief Psychologist at an outpatient clinic for children and adolescents in Oslo. Her main interests are developmental psychology and intersubjectively oriented time-limited psychotherapy, a method that