A Psychoanalytic Understanding of Female Violence

Consultant clinical and forensic psychologist with extensive clinical experience with women as perpetrators of violence and with the staff teams who work with them. She is currently a consultant clinical psychologist for the EOS Service, as part of CNWL NHS Foundation Trust, an MBT supervisor and a psychoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice. Formerly president of the International Association for Forensic Psychotherapy (IAFP), she is the author of A Love that Kills: Stories of Forensic Psychology and Female Violence (W&N, 2023), The Psychology of Female Violence: Crimes Against the Body (Routledge, 2008), and Toxic Couples: The Psychology of Domestic Violence (Routledge, 2014). Her work deals with the nature and causes of female violence from the perspectives of psychodynamic theory and forensic psychology. She researches complex trauma and personality disorder in women, intimate partner violence, self-harm, racialised trauma, and other major topics, including the sexual and physical abuse of children by women, infanticide, fabricated and induced illness, and self-harm.