The Breathing Boundary

M Inst Psychoanal FIPD is currently President of the Institute of Psychotherapy and Disability, a poet, writer, child psychotherapist and adult psychoanalyst. Her family background led to her involvement in work with disability. Her grandmother had a mild learning disability through trauma, while her father, a Professor of Special Education, was highly influential in ensuring that children with disabilities finally entered the world of education instead of hospital. She developed the learning disability contribution of the Tavistock Clinic for 20 years and worked with Professor Sheila Hollins at St George's Hospital, London for 16 years. She has written and co-edited 14 books, published over 120 papers and founded the Clinic for Dissociative Studies in London. Her book Mental Handicap and the Human Condition: An Analytic Approach to Intellectual Disability (Free Association Books) appeared in a revised, second edition in 2010. She received a 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD) for services to dissociation. Address for correspondence: []