Luisa Passalacqua is a qualified integrative counsellor with a background in psychology, dramatherapy, relationship and family counselling. She studied organisational and occupational psychology at La Sapienza University of Rome, dramatherapy at the University of Hertfordshire and counselling at HCCP, London.
Alice Miller was a psychoanalyst who became highly influential and is noted for her views on the consequences of child abuse. In her books she departed from psychoanalysis, charging it with being similar to the poisonous pedagogies. Her book The Drama of the Gifted Child became an international bestseller. She passed away in 2010.
Susan Forward, Ph.D. was a therapist and best-selling author. In addition to seeing clients in her private practice, she served as a therapist, instructor, and consultant for many Southern California psychiatric and medical facilities. The bestselling author of Toxic Parents, and Mothers Who Can’t Love, she hosted her own nationally syndicated program on ABC Talk Radio. She passed away in 2020.