An Evening with Anne Alvarez

Anne Alvarez, PhD, M.A.C.P., Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist (UK), is the acclaimed author of the classic text: ‘Live Company: Psychotherapy with Autistic, Borderline, Deprived and Abused Children’.

She teaches in the Child and Family Department, Tavistock Clinic, London, where she was for many years Co-Convener of the Autism Service. She was Visiting Professor at the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Society in November 2005 and is an Honorary Member of the Psychoanalytic Centre of California. Dr Alvarez is co-editor of: ‘Autism and Personality: Findings from the Tavistock Autism Workshop’. In her honour: ‘Being Alive: Building on the Work of Anne Alvarez’ was published in 2002. Dr Alvarez’s most recent book is: ‘The Thinking Heart: Three Levels of Psychoanalytic Therapy with Disturbed Children.’