Peter Fonagy, PhD, is Head of the Research Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology and Freud Memorial Professor of Psychoanalysis at University College, London. He is also CEO of the Anna Freud Centre in London, Senior Investigator at the British National Institute for Health Research, Visiting Clinical Professor at Harvard University, and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine. Dr. Fonagy is the recipient of numerous prizes, awards, and other honors in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Israel. He has published 16 books, nearly 400 original papers, and over 200 book chapters.
David Cottrell, MD, is Foundation Chair in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Leeds and has extensive experience in the development, management, delivery, and evaluation of services for children in the Leeds community. His research interests are in the evaluation of psychological interventions and child and adolescent mental health services. Dr. Cottrell was coauthor of the U.K. National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidelines on management of depression in children and young people. He is principal investigator of a large multicentered randomized controlled trial of systemic family therapy following teenage self-harm and coinvestigator on a second large multicentered randomized controlled trial evaluating multisystemic treatment for teenagers at risk.
Jeannette Phillips, MD, is a consultant psychiatrist in Dartford and Gravesham, United Kingdom.
Dickon Bevington, MD, is a member of the Cambridgeshire Child and Adolescent Substance Use Service, the Cambridgeshire Multisystemic Therapy for Child Abuse and Neglect team in the United Kingdom. He has a special interest in developing and running services for young people who are multiply excluded and may be seen as ?hard to reach” by conventional clinic-based services. Dr. Bevington is also a developer of mentalization-based treatments at the Anna Freud Centre. He is a recipient of an Innovation Nation Award for his work in developing wiki-based treatment manuals.
Danya Glaser, MD, is a Visiting Professor at University College, London, and honorary consultant in child and adolescent psychiatry at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London. She was a member of the U.K. Family Justice Council for 6 years and chaired the Development Group for the NICE Guideline ?When to Suspect Child Maltreatment” (Clinical Guideline No. 89). Dr. Glaser has taught, researched, and written widely on various aspects of child maltreatment, including sexual and emotional abuse, fabricated or induced illness, and the effects of child maltreatment on the developing brain. She is past president of the International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect and chairs the Coram adoption panel in the United Kingdom.
Elizabeth Allison, DPhil, is Publications Editor to Peter Fonagy and Mary Target, and is responsible for maintaining the websites of the University College, London, Psychoanalysis Unit and the International Journal of Psychoanalysis.
