Work at the Anna Freud Centre

Abstract

This chapter will place Fonagy’s work in institutional context, exploring his work as research director for the Anna Freud Centre in the 1990s, and attempting to characterize some features of his leadership of the Anna Freud Centre since 2003. The Centre has seen an incredible transformation in this time. We will seek to situate this transformation in relation to the challenges and opportunities of the wider social context. The chapter will close with an attempt to introduce some of the major collaborations from different eras of Fonagy’s work, introducing the dramatis personae for the rest of the book.