Contributors

Anne Alvarez, PhD, MACP, trained as a clinical psychologist in Canada and the USA before training as a child and adolescent psychotherapist at the Tavistock Centre. She is an honorary consultant child and adolescent psychotherapist and retired Co-Convener of the Autism Workshop, Child and Family Department, at the Tavistock Clinic, London. She is the author of numerous papers and best known for her book Live Company: Psychotherapy with Autistic, Borderline, Deprived and Abused Children. She has also edited (with Susan Reid) Autism and Personality: Findings from the Tavistock Autism Workshop. A book in her honour, edited by Judith Edwards, entitled Being Alive: Building on the Work of Anne Alvarez, was published in 2002. Her most recent book is The Thinking Heart: Three Levels of Psychoanalytic Therapy with Disturbed Children.

Kate Barrows is a training analyst with the British Psychoanalytical Society and works in private practice in Bristol, England. She is also a Tavistock-trained child psychotherapist and works at the Bridge Foundation for Psychotherapy and the Arts. She writes on a variety of clinical topics and has published several papers about the relationship between literature and psychoanalysis. These include: ‘Shadow Lives’, in A Festschrift for H. Sydney Klein, edited by J. Symington and published by Karnac Books, London and New York (2000); and ‘Aspects of Love and Loss in Three of Shakespeare's Sonnets’, in Acquainted with the Night, edited by H. Canham and C. Satyamurti, in the Tavistock Clinic Series and published by Karnac Books, London . Her clinical writings include papers in books and journals and the book Ideas in Psychoanalysis: Envy (2002). She was also the editor of Autism in Childhood and Autistic Features in Adults .

Geneviève Haag is a psychiatrist and adult and child psychoanalyst in private practice in Paris. A member of the Psychoanalytic Society of Paris, she is also a Founding Member of GERPEN (Research and Study Group for Child and Inf