JOURNAL OF CHILD PSYCHOTHERAPY

VOL. 33 NO. 1 2007 125 – 126

Author biographies

Deborah Blessing is in private practice in Washington D.C. She formerly served as

Co-Chair of the Advanced Psychotherapy Training Program at the Washington School
of Psychiatry where she remains on the faculty. She is also a member of the Core Faculty
of the Infant and Young Child Observation Program at the same institution. In
addition, she sits on the faculties of the New Directions in Psychoanalytic Writing
Program and the Modern Perspectives on Psychotherapy Program at the Washington
Center for Psychoanalysis. She has specialised in treating patients with eating disorders
for more than two decades.

Debbie Hindle is the Organising Tutor for the Clinical Training in Child
Psychotherapy at the Scottish Institute of Human Relations and is a consultant child
and adolescent psychotherapist with the Looked After and Accommodated Child and
Adolescent Mental Health Service in Glasgow. She has a long-standing interest in the
needs of children who are fostered and adopted and has written widely in relation to this
area of work.

Margaret Hunter-Smallbone is author of Psychotherapy with Young People in Care

(2001) and a contributor to The Handbook of Child Psychotherapy (Horne & Lanyado,
eds, 1999). She has been a child psychotherapist for over 20 years, 13 of these with the
South London and Maudsley NHS Trust, now with Herts Partnership in St Albans.
She has continued to work with looked after children throughout her career.

Jenny Kenrick was until recently a consultant child and adolescent psychotherapist and
clinical tutor for the Clinical Training in Child Psychotherapy at the Tavistock Clinic.
She still teaches on training at the Tavistock, in Birmingham and Italy. She was a
member of the Fostering and Adoption team and co-convenor of the Fostering and
Adoption Workshop at the Tavistock. She has developed a particular interest in, and has
written about, children in transition.

Monica Lanyado is a training supervisor for the British Association of Psychotherapists

and has a special interest in working with traumatised, fostered and adopted children.
She is former Joint Editor of the Journal of Child Psychotherapy and co-editor with Ann
Horne of The Handbook of Child Psychotherapy (1999) and A Question of Technique
(2006). Her book, The Presence of the Therapist, was published in 2004.

Jeanne Magagna has obtained qualifications as a child, adult and family psychotherapist
at the Tavistock Clinic. She has a doctorate in child and adolescent psychotherapy

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from UEL/Tavistock. Her publications include Joint Editor of both Intimate

Transformations: Babies with their Families and Crises in Adolescence. She works as
Head of Psychotherapy Services in Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children and
Ellern Mede Centre for Eating Disorders and is Joint Head of the Centro Studi Martha
Harris Child Psychotherapy Training in Florence and Venice, Italy.

Margaret Rustin is a consultant child psychotherapist and head of Child Psychotherapy

at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust. She has published widely in professional
journals and also co-edited Closely Observed Infants (Duckworth, 1989), Psychotic States
in Children (Duckworth, 1997; reprinted Karnac, 2002) and Assessment in Child
Psychotherapy (Duckworth 1999; reprinted Karnac, 2000). She has co-written with
Michael Rustin, Narratives of Love and Loss: Studies in Modern Children’s Fiction (Verso,
1987; reprinted Karnac, 2001) and Mirror to Nature – Drama, Psychoanalysis and Society
(Karnac, 2002).

Susan Sherwin-White is a consultant child and adolescent psychotherapist and Lead at

Hammersmith and Fulham CAMHS Child and Family Consultation Centre in the
West London Mental Health NHS Trust. She is Chair of the Association of Child
Psychotherapists. She has long been engaged in research on Freud’s cultural interests,
specifically in the ancient world, and is author of the article ‘Freud, the via regia, and
Alexander the Great.’ She currently has a particular interest in brother–sister psychology
and its importance for child and adolescent psychotherapy.