Hunger Strike in H-Block: The Disavowal of Passivity

Clinical career of twenty-five years and, as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist, worked in the National Health Service, in private practice, and in the not-for-profit sector. In the former she specialised in working with patients diagnosed with borderline personality disorder and in the latter she provided clinical and supervisory services within conflict resolution and restorative justice groups run by and for former Loyalist and Republican political prisoners and their families. Formerly a full member of The British Psychoanalytic Council she has retired from clinical practice. In her academic research she remains committed to understanding the body as one manifestation of the impact of the external world on the internal world.