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Professor Brett Kahr has worked in the mental health field since 1976. He is Senior Fellow at Tavistock Relationships at the Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology in London, and Senior Clinical Research Fellow in Psychotherapy and Mental Health at the Centre for Child Mental Health in London, as well as Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Media and Communication at Bournemouth University. A consultant in psychology to the Bowlby Centre, he is also a trustee of the Freud Museum London and of Freud Museum Publications. He is a visiting lecturer in the School of Psychotherapy & Psychology at Regent's University London. Kahr is the author or editor of nine books, including the best-selling Sex and the Psyche and, more recently, Tea with Winnicott and Coffee with Freud; and he has published over 50 other titles in his capacity as series editor or series co-editor of several monograph collections including the Forensic Psychotherapy Monograph series, the History of Psychoanalysis series, and the Library of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis. A historian of psychoanalysis as well as a media psychologist of long-standing, Kahr is former resident psychotherapist at BBC Radio 2 and spokesperson for the BBC mental health campaign Life 2 Live. He works in private practice in north London with individuals and couples.

Dr Katharina Lederle holds an MSc in Biosciences from the Ruprecht-Karls University, Germany, and a PhD in Human Circadian Physiology and Behaviour from the University of Surrey, UK. She is a sleep and fatigue specialist who helps people with sleep problems to improve their sleep and ultimately feel better. Katharina is passionate about raising awareness of sleep and its importance for health and well-being. Her current work involves developing individually tailored plans to obtain peaceful sleep using mindfulness and acceptance commitment therapy. Katharina also gives educational talks, lectures and workshops on sleep to organisations, institutions and in smalle