About the Author: Dr Petra Bueskens is an Honorary Fellow in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne, a psychotherapist in private practice and a freelance opinion writer. Her books include Modern Motherhood and Women’s Dual Identities (Routledge 2018), the edited volumes Mothering and Psychoanalysis (Demeter, 2014), Australian Mothering: Historical and Sociological Perspectives (Palgrave, 2020) and the Nancy Chodorow and The Reproduction of Mothering: Forty Years On (Palgrave, 2021). Her opinion pieces have appeared in New Matilda, The Conversation, The Huffington Post, Areo Magazine and others. 

About the Interviewer: Nada Lane is a Melbourne psychotherapist working in the psychoanalytic, developmental, relational, existential and family systems traditions. She is also a Unit Co-ordinator for the subject Parent Therapy in the Master of Mental Health Science - Child Psychotherapy, Monash University. In addition to her psychoanalytic, social work and teaching qualifications, Nada majored in.