Tavistock Clinic Series

The aim of the Tavistock Clinic Series is to make available to the public the clinical, theoretical, and research work that is most influential at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust.

The series sets out new approaches in the understanding and treatment of psychological disturbance in children, adolescents, and adults, both as individuals and in families.

The Editors

Jocelyn Catty, MA (Oxon), DPhil, is a Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist who trained at the Tavistock, and an adult psychotherapist. She is Research Lead for the doctoral training in child psychotherapy at the Tavistock Centre, and Co-Lead Child Psychotherapist for a CAMHS service in south London. She was previously Senior Research Fellow in Mental Health at St George’s, University of London, and has published in social psychiatry, psychotherapy, and English literature.

Kate Stratton is a Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist in the Adolescent & Young Adult Service at the Tavistock Clinic, and Course Tutor on the Tavistock’s clinical training in child and adolescent psychotherapy. She is a former editor of the Journal of Child Psychotherapy.

Margot Waddell is a Fellow of the Institute of Psychoanalysis. She has a background in Classics and literature and took a PhD at Cambridge on George Eliot’s novels. She is a Child Analyst and worked for many years as a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic, London. Her publications include Inside Lives: Psychoanalysis and the Growth of the Personality (2002) and On Adolescence: Inside Stories (2018).