Cleo Van Velsen Editor

Dr Estela Welldon MD FRCPsych, is Consultant Psychotherapist at the Portman Clinic and Honorary Senior Lecturer in Forensic Psychotherapy at University College, London. She is the Founder and Honorary President for life of the International Association for Forensic Psychotherapy and the founding Director of the Forensic Psychotherapy Diploma Course. She is a member of the British Association of Psychotherapists, an Honorary Member of the Institute of Group Analysis and a Member of the Board of Directors of the International Association of Group Psychotherapy. She is author of the acclaimed book examining the perversion of motherhood, Mother, Madonna, Whore (Guilford Press). Dr Cleo Van Velsen MRCPsych, qualified in medicine and surgery from King's College Hospital, London and trained in psychiatry at St George's Hospital, London. She is currently consultant psychotherapist on the psychotherapy unit of the Maudsley Hospital and is founder member of the International Association for Forensic Psychotherapy.