Frances Thomson-Salo is Associate Professor and Consultant Infant Mental Health Clinician in the Centre for Women's Mental Health at the Royal Women's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia, Honorary Principal Fellow in the University of Melbourne's Department of Psychiatry, and Instructor in the University of Melbourne Graduate Diploma/Masters in Infant and Parent Mental Health, Australia.

Laura Tognoli Pasquali is member of the International Psychoanalytical Association's Committee on Women and Psychoanalysis and training and supervising analyst in the Italian Psychoanalytical Society.