Irma Brenman Pick is a Distinguished Fellow and Senior Training and Supervising Analyst of the British Psychoanalytic Society. She is a past President of the Society. She trained first as a Child Psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic in London, and then as an Adult and a Child Psychoanalyst at the Institute of Psychoanalysis, London.

She served on many committees in the British Society and the International Psychoanalytic Association and has taught in a number of countries, including Australia, Brazil, Germany, Italy, India, Israel, Scandinavia, South Africa, and in the USA (Boston, Los Angeles, New York and Seattle). She is an Honorary Member of the Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Society and the Swedish Psychoanalytic Society.

M. Fakhry Davids is a Fellow and Training and Supervising Analyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society, Honorary Senior Lecturer in the Psychoanalysis Unit, University College London, Honorary Fellow at the Centre for Trauma and Refugees, University of Essex, and Visiting Lecturer at the Tavistock Clinic. He is the author of Internal Racism: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Race and Difference (2011).

Naomi Shavit is a Fellow and Training and Supervising Analyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society. She also trained as a Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic, where she taught for many years. She has taught widely on psychoanalytic and psychotherapy trainings in London, and has conducted post-graduate clinical workshops abroad, including Denmark, Israel, India, Italy and Japan.

Foreword Michael Brearley Introduction M. Fakhry Davids and Naomi Shavit SECTION 1: COUNTERTRANSFERENCE Editors¿ Introduction; Chapter 1: Working through in the countertransference (1985) Chapter 2: Breakdown in communication: on finding the child in the analysis of an adult (1985) Chapter 3: The emergence of early object relations in the psychoanalytic setting (1992) Chapter 4: Working through in the countertransference revisited: experiences of supervision (2012) SECTION 2: AUTHENTICITY Editors¿ Introduction; Chapter 5: On stealing: clinical notes on three adolescent boys (1967) Chapter 6: Precocious development (1969) Chapter 7: Concern: spurious or real (1995) Chapter 8: Creativity and authenticity (2012) SECTION 3: ADOLESCENCE AND SEXUALITY Editors¿ Introduction; Chapter 9: Adolescence: its impact on patient and analyst (1988); Chapter 10: Female sexuality: some clinical considerations (1985) Chapter 11: Male sexuality: a clinical study of forces that impede development (1985) SECTION 4: FURTHER CLINICAL THEMES Editors¿ Introduction; Chapter 12: Dangling in uncertainty (2002) Chapter 13: Bringing things together (2004) Chapter 14: The interwoven snakes: lurching between longing and destruction (2015)