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211 Anne Aiyegbusi’s professional position is Nurse Consultant—
1 Women’s Service—Broadmoor Hospital. Her role involves a ther-
2 apy caseload, developing nursing practice, a role in strategic
3 management of the women’s directorate, providing supervision for
4 nurses, teaching, and research. She is particularly interested in psy-
5 chological trauma and the emotional impact on nursing staff of
6 working with groups of traumatized women offenders.
7 She has published several papers about women in secure care, the
8 experience of black people in forensic mental health services, and
9 self-injury. Anne has presented at conferences for many years.
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1 Brett Kahr is Senior Lecturer in Psychotherapy in the School of
2 Psychotherapy and Counselling at Regent’s College in London; and
3 in 2001, he became the inaugural Winnicott Clinic Senior Research
4 Fellow in Psychotherapy. He has been a Consultant to the Centre
5 for Attachment-Based Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy since its
6 inception, as well as a longstanding member of its teaching and
7 supervising staff. Additionally, he is a Patron of The Squiggle
8 Foundation, and a Trustee of the Institute of Psychotherapy and
911 Disability, as well as Special Media Adviser to The United Kingdom
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111 Council for Psychotherapy. He works in private practice as a
2 psychoanalytic psychotherapist and as a couple psychotherapist,
3 having graduated from the Tavistock Marital Studies Institute. His
4 books include D. W. Winnicott: A Biographical Portrait, which won
5 the Gradiva Award for Biography in 1997; Forensic Psychotherapy
6 and Psychopathology: Winnicottian Perspectives; and The Legacy of
7 Winnicott: Essays on Infant and Child Mental Health, all published
8 by Karnac, as well as a book on exhibitionism. He is the Series
9 Editor of the Forensic Psychotherapy Monograph Series, also for
10 Karnac.
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2 Bernice Laschinger had many years of experience in community
3 mental health before becoming an attachment-based psychoana-
4 lytic psychotherapist. She is a member of CAPP, where she is a
5 training therapist, teacher, and supervisor, and has been very
6 involved in the development of CAPP’s training curriculum,
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8 analysis into the course.
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20 Susie Orbach’s interests as a psychotherapist and writer have cen-
1 tred around psychoanalysis, gender, counter-transference and the
2 body, psychoanalysis and the public sphere, the construction of
3 femininity and emotional literacy. Her first book, Fat is a Feminist
4 Issue, is now twenty-three years old. It was followed by two books
511 on eating problems, three on women’s psychology with Luise
6 Eichenbaum, and two collections of her Guardian columns called
7 What’s Really Going on Here and Towards Emotional Literacy. The
8 Impossibility of Sex, imagined tales from therapy told from the psy-
9 chotherapist’s point of view, were published in 1999. In 1997 she co-
311 founded The Women’s Therapy Centre and in 1981 The Women’s
1 Therapy Centre Institute, a training institute in New York. She is
2 currently Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics.
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4 Margot Sunderland (UKCP Registered Psychotherapist) is
5 Founding Director of the Centre for Child Mental Health, London.
6 She is also Head of the Children and Young People Section of the
7 United Kingdom Association for Therapeutic Counselling. Margot
8 has several published books in child therapy, one of which won a
911 BMAaward (Mental Health section). Her main research area is “the
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111 neuroscience of human interaction”. In addition, Margot is found-
2 ing Director of “Helping Where It Hurts”, which offers free therapy
3 and counselling to troubled children in several primary schools in
4 North London. The therapy work underwent Gulbenkian funded
5 research showing successful outcomes. Margot is also Principal of
6 The Institute for Arts in Therapy and Education, a fully accredited
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8 Therapy and Masters Degree courses in Art Psychotherapy and
9 Arts in Education and Therapy.
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1 Colwyn Trevarthen, a New Zealander, is Professor (Emeritus)
2 of Child Psychology and Psychobiology of The University of
3 Edinburgh, where he has taught since 1971. A biologist and psy-
4 chologist, Trevarthen has published on neuropsychology, brain
5 development and, in the last thirty years, on communication in
6 infancy. He and colleagues have produced a book entitled Children
7 with Autism, published by Jessica Kingsley and now in its second
8 edition. Research on the infant mind began with Jerome Bruner at
9 Harvard in 1966. The development of human “intersubjectivity”,
211 the ability to sympathize with other persons’ mental states of all
1 kinds, became his main line of work. He contributed the lead arti-
2 cle to a book entitled Intersubjective Communication and Emotion in
3 Early Ontogeny, edited by Stein Bråten and published by Cambridge
4 University Press in 1998. Professor Trevarthen has an Honorary
5 Doctorate in Psychology from the University of Crete, and he has
6 been elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and Member
7 of the Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters.
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9 Kate White is a registered Member of the Centre for Attachment-
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1 the Education Committee, and is a training therapist, supervisor,
2 and teacher. Formerly senior lecturer at South Bank University in
3 the Department of Nursing and Community Health Studies, she has
4 used her extensive experience in adult education in her work for the
5 United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy, where she chaired the
6 Training Standards and Membership Committee of the
7 Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Section. In addition to working
8 as an individual psychotherapist, Kate is consultant to, and has run
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