Mary Target PhD is Professor of Psychoanalysis at University College London, and Professional Director of the Anna Freud Centre, London (a non-profit child and family therapy organisation). She is a clinical and developmental psychologist, with current active research projects in the areas of treatment development, therapy process and outcome, child attachment and social cognition, using both quantitative and qualitative methodologies. She has thirty years of clinical experience, and currently runs a half-time practice in adult psychotherapy and psychoanalysis.