AUTISM IN CHILDHOOD AND AUTISTIC FEATURES IN ADULTS

Anne Alvarez, PhD, MACP, trained as a clinical psychologist in Canada and the USA before training as a child and adolescent psychotherapist in the UK. She is an honorary consultant child and adolescent psychotherapist (and retired Co-Convener of the Autism Workshop) in the Child and Family Department of the Tavistock Clinic, London. She is author of Live Company: Psychotherapy with Autistic, Borderline, Deprived and Abused Children, and has co-edited with Susan Reid Autism and Personality: Findings from the Tavistock Autism Workshop. A book in her honour, edited by Judith Edwards, entitled Being Alive: Building on the Work of Anne Alvarez was published in 2002. She was Visiting Professor at the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Society in November 2005.