Bringing Up Baby: The Psychoanalytic Infant Comes of Age

Dianna Kenny PhD, MA (School Counselling), BA (Hons) Dip Ed, ATCL, MAPsS, MAPA is a Professor of Psychology at The University of Sydney. Her subspecialties are developmental psychology and developmental psychopathology. She has lectured and published widely in these disciplines with over 200 books, edited books, book chapters, journal articles, monographs and commissioned reports. Recent examples include a book (with Paul Nelson) on young offenders - Young Offenders on Community Orders: Health, Welfare and Criminogenic Needs with Sydney University Press, 2008; and a book on music performance anxiety - The Psychology of Music Performance Anxiety with Oxford University Press, 2011. Dianna has lectured at the undergraduate and graduate levels to clinical doctorate in infant psychology, child and adolescent psychology, therapies for children and their families, psychotherapeutic principles and attachment-based psychotherapy. Dianna is a member of the Australian and American Psychological Societies and a former member of the International Association for Applied Psychologists. She is a qualified school psychologist, child and adolescent psychologist, psychotherapist, and marriage and family therapist. She is also a member of the national executive and serves as research and education officer for the psychoanalytically informed interest group of the Australian Psychological Society. She advocates for the rights of children everywhere and established a foundation in Nepal in 2002 to support the education and welfare of young Nepalese children living in poverty.