(11) Talking is a Dying Art

M Inst Psychoanalysis, FIPD FISSTD, is a poet, writer, child, adolescent and adult psychotherapist, and adult psychoanalyst. She was Founding Director of the Clinic for Dissociative Studies until her retirement and remains a Consultant. She was President of the Institute for Psychotherapy and Disability (IPD) and Honorary Consultant Psychotherapist at the University of Cape Town Child Guidance Clinic; Patron of the Dorchester Trust, Chair of Trustees of the First People Art Centre—Nieu Bethesda Arts Foundation. Her extensive writing includes over 120 papers and chapters. Furthermore, she has written, edited, and co-edited over fourteen books including a revised second edition of her seminal book Mental Handicap and the Human Condition (Free Association Books, 2010) and her most recent co-edited book with Amelia van der Merwe is Shattered But Unbroken: Voices of Triumph and Testimony (Karnac, 2017). Email: