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FOREWORD by Susie Orbach xiii
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Winnicott’s experiments with physical contact: creative innovation
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Symbolic understanding of tactile communication
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Bearing witness to an abused patient’s physical injuries
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211 Camilla Bosanquet is a Jungian analyst and professional member
1 of the Society of Analytical Psychology, where she is a past chair-
2 man and training analyst. Before training as a Jungian analyst, she
3 qualified in medicine, working as a General Practitioner and then
4 as a psychiatrist in the National Health Service. She later worked as
5 a psychotherapist at University College Hospital in London and
6 London School of Economics, while also maintaining a private
7 practice. She is a founder member of the Guild of Psychotherapists.
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A. H. Brafman is a psychoanalyst of adults and children and
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Adolescent Psychiatrist. He has been involved in teaching pro-
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111 Nicola Diamond is the Director of PhD studies at the School of
2 Psychotherapy and Counselling at Regent’s College, London, and
3 is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist (British Association of Psycho-
4 therapists) in private practice. She has worked with children,
5 adolescents, and adults in the National Health Service, and is one
6 of the founding members of the International Attachment Network.
7 Her specialized area of interest is the body. She is co-author, with
8 Mario Marrone, of Attachment and Intersubjectivity.
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10 Em Farrell is a psychodynamic psychotherapist and supervisor in
1 private practice. She teaches on a number of psychotherapy train-
2 ings and runs workshops on eating disorders for practitioners, as
3 well as running body image workshops for children in schools. She
4 has written a book on the psychoanalytic psychotherapy of eating
5 disorders, Lost for Words: The Psychoanalysis of Anorexia and Bulimia.
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711 Graeme Galtonwas born in Australia and lives in London. He is a
8 psychoanalytic psychotherapist in the National Health Service and
9 in private practice. At the Parkside Clinic in London he works with
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1 vice. He also works at the Clinic for Dissociative Studies, a small
2 specialist outpatient mental health service for people suffering from
3 severe trauma and dissociation. He is a registered member of the
4 Centre for Attachment-based Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, where
511 he is a training supervisor and teaches on the clinical training pro-
6 gramme. He is also a visiting tutor at the School of Psychotherapy
7 and Counselling, Regent’s College, London.
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9 Brett Kahris Senior Clinical Research Fellow in Psychotherapy and
311 Mental Health at the Centre for Child Mental Health, London, and
1 the Winnicott Clinic Senior Research Fellow in Psychotherapy. He
2 is also Senior Lecturer in Psychotherapy in the School of Psycho-
3 therapy and Counselling at Regent’s College, London and Visiting
4 Clinician at the Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships. He is the
5 author of several books, including D. W. Winnicott: A Biographical
6 Portrait, which won the Gradiva Award for Biography, as well as
7 Forensic Psychotherapy and Psychopathology: Winnicottian Perspectives,
8 The Legacy of Winnicott: Essays on Infant and Child Mental Health, as
911 well as a book on Exhibitionism. He has recently been appointed as
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111 Resident Psychotherapist for BBC Radio 2. He works in private
2 practice as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and marital psy-
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5 Pearl Kingis an Honorary Member and a training and supervising
6 psychoanalyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society and an Hono-
711 rary Member of the Finnish Psychoanalytical Society. She was for-
8 merly President of the British Psychoanalytical Society, Honorary
9 Secretary of the International Psychoanalytical Association and
10 Honorary Archivist to the British Psychoanalytical Society. She is
1 co-editor, with Riccardo Steiner, of The Freud/Klein Controversies
2 1941–1945, and has edited and compiled a selection of John Rick-
3 man’s papers, No Ordinary Psychoanalyst: The Exceptional Contribu-
4 tions of John Rickman, which contains her biography of Rickman. She
5 recently published a selection of her own papers, Time Present and
6 Time Past. In 1992 she received the Sigourney Award for outstand-
7 ing contributions to psychoanalysis.
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9 Robert Langsworks in private practice as a psychoanalyst in New
211 York. He is an Honorary Visiting Fellow at the School of
1 Psychotherapy and Counselling at Regent’s College in London. He
2 is the author of forty-three books and over 150 scientific papers and
3 book chapters. His many books have sold more than one million
4 copies and include Doing Supervision and Being Supervised; Dreams
5 and Emotional Adaptation; Ground Rules in Psychotherapy and
6 Counselling; Death Anxiety in Clinical Practice; and Fundamentals of
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9 Susie Orbach PhD, is the Co-Founder, The Women's Therapy
30 Centre (1976), and Visiting Professor at the London School of
1 Economics. She is the author of Fat is a Feminist Issue (Paddington,
2 1978); Understanding Women (Penguin, 1982); Hunger Strike (Faber,
3 1986); Between Women (Penguin, 1987); The Impossibility of Sex
4 (Penguin, 1999); Towards Emotional Literacy (Virago, 1999); and On
5 Eating(Penguin, 2001).
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7 Maria Emilia Pozzi was born in Italy and trained as a child and
8 adolescent psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic, then as an adult
911 psychotherapist with the British Association of Psychotherapists.
