‘I Caught You!’ Part 2: Enriching the External Reality

Senior child and adolescent psychotherapist, adult psychoanalyst, and chartered clinical psychologist. She works full time in private practice, leads mother-infant observation seminars, and supervises student dissertations at Birkbeck University on an MSc course, having done so for many years. Sheila previously worked for 15 years as a Highly Specialised Clinical Psychologist in Barnet, Enfield & Haringey Mental Health Trust Tier 3-4 services. This included work in adult services for asylum seekers and refugees and learning difficulties, and in child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) with high risk, complex needs adolescents, and with children, adolescents and their families with moderate to severe learning difficulties and neurodevelopmental disorders. Coming from an ego psychology background through her clinical psychology training at Bogazici University-Istanbul/Turkey, she chose to do her analytic trainings in the UK due to her interest in integrating object relations theory with theory of mind thinking. She has managed several applied psychoanalytic community projects in Turkey, Israel, and London. Her Ph.D./MPhil dissertation was on empirical testing of Freudian castration anxiety concept through studying the psychological effects of circumcision on Turkish - Muslim boys. She specialises in psychodiagnostic and complex case studies, and has presented in various national, international conferences and scientific meetings in the UK. She has previously published papers and book chapters.