Kathleen Fargione, MSW is retired from clinical practice but continues to teach and write. In her years as a psychodynamic psychotherapist, she saw many abused, traumatized, borderline and autistic children and adults whose minds had been halted in their developmental trajectory. Her interest in developmental ideas began when she worked with a profoundly withdrawn boy whose mind was trapped in a world of sameness. It was psychodynamic theory which helped her through the mine field of working with this young man. Her paper “Climbing a Waterfall: Understanding an Adolescent Boy in Autistic Retreat” was published in the British Journal of Child Psychotherapy in 2013. Her work with a traumatized, dissociated young woman was published as a chapter in the book Reflections on Long-Term Relational Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis in 2019. Kathleen has also written two books. The first, A Clinician’s View of Attachment, grew out of her years of teaching about attachment theory as it relates to child development. The second book, Evolving Psychoanalytic Concepts, grew out of her teaching about the growth and development of psychoanalytic theory from Freud to today. Teaching and writing have deepened her understanding of the rich history of psychoanalytic ideas we have from Freud and Klein and Bowlby to neuroscience and Bion. She is particularly interested in ideas about early mental development and what happens when trauma derails that development.