Peter Fonagy

Peter Fonagy is Professor of Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Developmental Science and Head of the Division of Psychology and Language Sciences at University College London. Trained as a clinical psychologist and as an adult and child psychoanalyst, he is also Chief Executive of the Anna Freud Centre and has held visiting professorships at Yale and Harvard Medical Schools. His clinical and research interests include early attachment relationships, social cognition, borderline personality disorder, and violence.

Fonagy has authored or co-authored numerous books and hundreds of scientific papers and chapters. His books include Attachment Theory and Psychoanalysis, first published by Routledge in 2001, which examines the relationship between attachment theory and psychoanalysis.