Ethics and Iatrogenia in Clinical Practice: A Relational Perspective*

UKCP accredited psychoanalytic psychotherapist, supervisor and couples’ therapist. He has a background in the National Probation Service where he specialised in working with high risk violent individuals and couples. He subsequently trained at the Bowlby Centre where he devised and taught modules on Child and Adolescence Development, Dissociation, and Relational Perspectives on Psychosis. He is a member of the Anna Freud Academic Faculty, the Forum for Independent Psychotherapists, the International Association for Forensic Psychotherapy, the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, the International Attachment Network, and the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration. He is on the editorial board of Psychoanalytic Inquiry, recently editing a special issue of this journal on the role of attachment theory in clinical practice. He is the author of numerous book chapters and journal articles, and of the Silent Past and the Invisible Present: Memory, Trauma, and Representation in Psychotherapy. He has a private practice in London. Email: