Anne Alvarez

Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist

Anne Alvarez, PhD, M.A.C.P is a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist (and retired Co-Convener of the Autism Service, Child and Family Department at The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust , where she still teaches). She is the author of Live Company: Psychotherapy with Autistic, Borderline, Deprived and Abused Children and has edited, Autism and Personality: Findings from the Tavistock Autism Workshop with Susan Reid. A book in her honour, edited by Judith Edwards, entitled Being Alive: Building on the Work of Anne Alvarez was published in 2002.

Anne was Visiting Professor at the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Society in November 2005 and is an Honorary Member of the Psychoanalytic Centre of California. Her latest book, The Thinking Heart: Three Levels of Psychoanalytic Therapy with Disturbed Children was published in April 2012 by Routledge. A book by Galit Gampel on Alvarez in a series on influential thinkers in psychoanalysis is in preparation for Routledge.