Can Theories on Complex Trauma and Attachment Make Room for Garwood's Concept of a Psychic Guardian?1

Board certified in psychology (ABPP); an associate professor with tenure at the Case Western Reserve University departments of psychology and psychiatry; and a lecturer of law and psychiatry at Yale University. Leslie has published one book and over 150 articles, book chapters, and reviews, as well as participated in two movies, one being The Keepers, on Netflix. Dr Lothstein is also Vice President of the International Association for Forensic Psychotherapy; a board member of the Whiting Forensic Hospital in Connecticut; specialises in forensic sexuality, psychodynamic, and psycho-analytically/self-psychology informed individual therapy, and group psychotherapy; working with trauma with professionals and clergy in distress; lectures nationally and internationally on issues of domestic and sexual violence; art in psychotherapy; and integrating somatic neurobiological findings into psychotherapy.