Bottoms*

Trained as a psychiatric social worker and worked in Child Guidance and in Probation (research). She came to the Family Discussion Bureau (now TCCR) in 1960 and retired as a senior couple psychotherapist in 1988. She has since worked in private practice; voluntarily for the Medical Foundation for Victims of Torture; for Kings College Hospital on a project addressing the dignity and conditions of elderly patients; and on improving the environment of dementia wards. She was a founder of the Independent Adoption Society. Her publications include: A Plain Man's Guide to Supervision; The Outcome of Maritally Focused Psychotherapy; “Changing Marriage” in: C. Clulow (Ed.), Marriage: Disillusion and Hope; Psychotherapy through Interpreters; and informal history of the FDB/IMS 1960-mid 1970s.