Professor Peter Fonagy, Chartered Psychologist and Society Associate Fellow, has been made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for his services to psychoanalysis and clinical psychology in the Queen's birthday honours list.

Peter, Chief Executive of The Anna Freud Centre and Head of the Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology at University College London, was a keynote speaker at our annual conference in May discussing the different ways children learn and how this can help the delivery of high value clinical services.

The Society also recognised Peter's outstanding research and teaching achievements with our 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award. His ground-breaking work had shown that a parent's quality of attachment to his or her own parents predicts the strength of the infant's attachment to that parent and child's resilience and outcomes in later life. 

You can read more about Peter Fonagy's work in the February 2013 issue of our monthly magazine The Psychologist.