Author Information

Jessie Emilion is a BACP accredited counsellor and UKCP registered cognitive analytic psychotherapist, supervisor and trainer. She has been working in the NHS for over 20 years in various capacities as a senior clinician, trainer and manager. She has a particular interest in bi-lingualism, culture, language and race and the impact of these factors on mental health, development of self and therapeutic alliance. She is currently employed by South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust as CAT Psychotherapy Lead at the Munro Centre, Guys Hospital and by CRUSE Bereavement Support as consultant psychotherapist and supervisor. She is a visiting Research Fellow at Regent's Centre for Relational Studies & Psychological Wellbeing.

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 he is also 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 a trustee of the Freud Museum London and of Freud Museum Publications. He is also a visiting lecturer in the School of Psychotherapy & Psychology at Regent's University London. Kahr is the author or editor of eleven books, including the best-selling Sex and the Psyche and, more recently, Tea with Winnicott and Coffee with Freud. 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, he is former resident psychotherapist at BBC Radio 2 and spokesperson for the BBC mental health campaign Life 2 Live. He wor