Notes on Contributors

Gael Beckett is a clinical psychologist and a psychoanalytic psychotherapist. She has run a family practice, worked in community, hospital, and educational settings, and taught at the University of the Witwatersrand. Currently she works with adult individuals and couples in Cape Town and online. She is a Fellow of the South African Psychoanalytical Initiative (SAPI), and a member of the South African Psychoanalytic Confederation (SAPC), the Johannesburg Couples Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (JPACP) study group, of SAPI, and of the Association for Couple Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists (ACPP).

Sophie Bellamacina is a BACP-registered psychodynamic couple and individual psychotherapist. Sophie trained at Tavistock Relationships where she now works in the clinical service. She is based in London.

Wayne Bodkin trained with Tavistock Relationships and holds a doctorate in couple psychodynamic psychotherapy. He has lived and worked in the city of Montpellier in the south of France for the last thirty-four years. Since 2012 he also works as a consultant psychotherapist with a specialised forensic sexual abuse unit in the public hospital, the CHU in Montpellier. He also has a private practice in the old part of that city where he sees clients in person and online. He writes extensively in French and English and an essay on sexual abuse in sport is due for publication in France this year.

Martha Doniach, MA, BPC, UKCP, is an individual and couple psychoanalytic psychotherapist. She is a member of the Foundation for Psychotherapy and Counselling (FPC-WPF) and of Tavistock Relationships Association of Psychotherapists and Counsellors (TRAPC). She worked for several years in an NHS London hospital, psychotherapy adult outpatient service where she held the position of lead for specialist psychological therapies. She teaches, supervises, and consults widely including at Tavistock Relationships and the Tavistock and Portman Clinic. She was previously a social worker working in child an