On Children Who Privilege the Body - with Thoughts on the Ideal Self

Fellow of the British Psychotherapy Foundation (BPF) and a proud Honorary Member of ČSPAP. Trained at the BAP (British Association of Psychotherapists, now IPCAPA - Independent Psychoanalytic Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Association at the BPF) in the Independent tradition, she was later head of training and then of post-graduate development. She has edited the Journal of Child Psychotherapy, co-edited with Monica Lanyado The Handbook of Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy and developed the Independent Psychoanalytic Approaches with Children and Adolescents series for Routledge. Her Selected Papers (On Children Who Privilege the Body - reflections of an Independent psychotherapist) will be published in 2018 with a Foreword by Lydia Tischler. Retired from NHS work, lastly at the Portman Clinic in London, she writes, teaches and still retains a particular interest in children who use the body and activity rather than being able to access thought and reflection.