Born in South Africa, Jennifer Davids is a chartered clinical psychologist and a child, adolescent, and adult psychoanalyst, trained at the Anna Freud Centre and the British Psychoanalytical Society. She worked as a staff member of the Anna Freud Centre for over 20 years in the National Health Service and in foster care agencies. Working in the community beyond the consulting room is one of her passions. She has taught nationally and internationally and published a book, The Nursery Age Child (Karnacs 2010), and several papers. Jennifer is much influenced by the ideas of Clare and Donald Winnicott, who wrote much about the play. She lives, writes, plays, and works in private practise in London.