Alex Holder trained as a child analyst in London at the Anna Freud Centre and as a psychoanalyst for adults at the British Psychoanalytical Society. He is a member, training analyst and supervisor of the German Psychoanalytical Association and the former head of the Department for Analytic Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy at the Michael Balint Institute in Hamburg and Editor of the Bulletin of the European Psychoanalytical Federation. For the last few years, he has been Editor of International Psychoanalysis, the News Magazine of the International Psychoanalytical Association.