The Therapist with Her Back against the Wall

Head of Child Psychotherapy at the Tavistock Clinic and Organizing Tutor of the child psychotherapy training and the clinical research doctorate programme for qualified child psychotherapists. She has taught extensively in the UK and abroad. Her publications included co-editing Closely Observed Infants (1989, London: Duckworth), Psychotic States in Children (1997, London: Tavistock/Duckworth) and Assessment in Child Psychotherapy (2000, London: Tavistock/Duckworth). A revised edition of Narratives of Love and Loss: Studies in Modern Children's Fiction, written jointly with Michael Rustin, will be published by Karnac in September 2001.