The Science of Living and the Art of Dying

Founder and Honorary Elected President for Life of the International Association for Forensic Psychotherapy; Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists; Honorary Doctor in Sciences, Oxford Brookes University; Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist in Psychotherapy at Tavistock and Portman NHS Clinics; and Honorary Member of the American Psychoanalytic Association. She is a Member of the British Psychotherapy Foundation, British Psychoanalytic Council, Institute of Group Analysis, Association of Group Psychotherapists, International Association for Group Psychotherapy, and Honorary Member of the Alumni Association of Tavistock Relationships at the Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology. She works privately as a psychoanalytical psychotherapist and lectures worldwide. She is the author of many papers and chapters on group analytical psychotherapy and forensic psychotherapy and of the following books: Mother Madonna Whore: The Idealisation and Denigration of Motherhood (1988), translated into 11 languages; Ideas in Psychoanalysis: Sadomasochism (2002), translated into four languages; Playing with Dynamite: A Personal Approach to the Understanding of Perversions, Violence and Criminality (2011), translated into Spanish (Psimatica, 2014); Sex Now, Talk Later (2016). She is also the main editor of A Practical Guide to Forensic Psychotherapy (1997). The BJP published a special issue comprising the papers from a conference held in 2008 to mark the 20th anniversary of the publication of Mother Madonna Whore (BJP, vol. 25 no. 2, May 2009).