Bringing up the Bodies: Psyche-Soma, Body Awareness and Feeling at Ease

Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist at the Tavistock and Portman Clinics and an Adult Psychotherapist in private practice. His publications include Nurturing Natures, Attachment and Children's Emotional, Sociocultural and Brain Development (2011), Affect and Emotion (2001), and ‘The Good Life: Wellbeing and the new Science of Altruism, Selfishness and Immorality’ (2014). He has a particular interest in exploring the interface between developmental findings and clinical work. Formerly an Associate Clinical Director in the Tavistock Child and Family Department, he has worked therapeutically with maltreated children for over two decades, has managed a range of services concerned with the aftermath of child maltreatment and neglect, and also organized community-based therapy services. He now works at the Portman Clinic with forensic cases. He teaches and supervises on the Tavistock Child Psychotherapy Training and a number of trainings in Britain and abroad.