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With over 45 years of experience and the research, the Brent Centre is internationally renowned for its work with adolescents.
The Brent Centre for Young People in the news:
Zadie Smith, hosting Teenage Kicks event for Brent Centre
Expert Biographies
The Brent Centre for Young People is proud to employ some of the leading thinkers on Adolescent Mental Health. If you would like to discuss adolescent mental health with one of experts then please contact us on
020 7328 4216 or email gabrielle@brentcentre.org.uk.
Fax number: 0207 604 5055
Mrs Eglé Laufer
Mrs Laufer founded the Centre together with her late husband Mr Moses Laufer. Mrs Laufer is the President of the Brent Centre for Young People and maintains an active role in the running of the Centre. Mrs Laufer has been a Psychotherapist for over 50 years and from 1959 to 1992 worked at the University College Hospital as well as the Brent Centre for Young People.
Between them and with the Brent Centre staff, Dr and Mrs Laufer published five books. These books widely used and respected among those working in the field of adolescent health.
Dr Maxim De Sauma
Dr de Sauma has worked at the Centre for over 20 years and has been its CEO & Clinical Director for more than 14 years. Dr de Sauma qualified as a Medical Doctor as well as Psychiatrist and Adult, Child and Adolescent Psychoanalyst. He is also a fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society and Chair of the Child Analysis Training Committee at the Institute of Psychoanalysis, London. He is a former Head of the Child and Adolescent Department (London Clinic of Psychoanalysis) from 1998 to 2008.
He wrote several papers on adolescent psychoanalysis and has been giving presentations at conferences and other events on adolescent mental health across the world.
Dr Catalina Bronstein
Dr Bronstein originally trained as a doctor and a psychiatrist in Argentina before moving to the UK to train as a Psychotherapist at the world renowned Tavistock Clinic. Then Dr Bronstein qualified as Psychoanalyst at the Institute of Psychoanalysis. Dr Bronstein has many years of experience of working in mental health and has spent 22 of those years working at the Brent Centre for Young People.
Dr Bronstein has written a number of papers and articles on adolescent suicide, psychosomatic illnesses and states of breakdown in adolescence. She also edited (2001) "Kleinian Theory. A Contemporary Perspective" and is currently the London Editor of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis. Dr Bronstein is an experienced lecturer and has lectured across the world and here in the UK. She is currently a Training Psychoanalyst at the British Psychoanalytical Society and Senior Lecturer (Hon) in Psychoanalytic Theory at University College London.
Dr Sara Flanders PhD
Dr. Flanders has been working at the Brent Centre for over 20 years. She was born in the United States and got her PhD at the University of California, Berkeley. She edited "The Dream Discourse Today" and published several papers on psychoanalysis and adolescent work. She also occupied several offices at the British Psychoanalytical Society where she is a Training and Supervising Analyst.
Annual Reports:
Annual Report 08/09
Annual Report 07/08
Annual Report 06/07
If you have any queries regarding The Brent Centre for Young People and the Media please contact us at gabrielle@brentcentre.org.uk or on 0207 328 4216.