“Led Astray by Their Half-Baked Pseudo-Scientific Rubbish”: John Bowlby and the Paradigm Shift in Child Psychiatry

Worked in the mental health field for over thirty-five years. He is Senior Clinical Research Fellow in Psychotherapy and Mental Health at the Centre for Child Mental Health in London, and Honorary Visiting Professor in the Department of Media, Culture and Language in the School of Arts at the University of Roehampton, as well as External Examiner to the Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships at the Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology. He has served as Consultant in Psychology and Psychohistory to The Bowlby Centre since 1992. He is the author or editor of eight books, including the prize-winning D.W. Winnicott: A Biographical Portrait, which received the Gradiva Award for Biography, as well as Sex and the Psyche. Most recently, he has published Life Lessons from Freud, as well as Tea with Winnicott. He serves as Co-Editor of the Karnac Books “History of Psychoanalysis Series” and, also, as a Trustee of the Freud Museum. His latest books, now in press, include Winnicott's Anni Horribiles: The Biographical Roots of ‘Hate in the Counter-Transference’, as well as a critical edition of Ursula Bowlby's unknown book Happy Infancy. He works in private practice with individuals and couples in Hampstead, North London. E-mail: