Victoria Barker Author

Adam Polnay is a Consultant Medical Psychotherapist and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist at the State Hospital, Carstairs, and leads the Edinburgh Psychotherapy Department. He is also affiliated with Edinburgh University and leads the psychodynamic training for psychiatrists in South-East Scotland. Rhiannon Pugh is a Consultant Medical Psychotherapist and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist based in Edinburgh and was Associate Postgraduate Dean in the Scotland Deanery from 2007 until 2022. Victoria Barker is a Consultant Medical Psychotherapist and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist who leads the City & Hackney Specialist Psychotherapy Service within the East London NHS Foundation Trust. David Bell is a Consultant Psychiatrist, formerly at the Adult Department at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust where he was Director of Postgraduate Training and led a specialist service (the Fitzjohn's Unit) for people with enduring and complex problems. He is a past president of the British Psychoanalytical Society. Allan Beveridge is a retired psychiatrist who continues on the staff of the British Journal of Psychiatry as Psychiatry and Pictures Editor and Co-Book Review Editor. He is also History and Humanities Editor of the Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. Adam Burley is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist working for Simon Community Scotland. Allyson Lumsden is an Adult Psychotherapist and Group Analyst within the NHS and third sector. Allyson is also a trainer for therapists studying with the Institute of Group Analysis. C. Susan Mizen is a Consultant Medical Psychotherapist and an Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist in the Devon Partnership NHS Trust. She is also chair of the Talking Therapies Task Force. Lauren Wilson is a Consultant Medical Psychotherapist specialising in psychodynamic psychotherapy working within the Edinburgh Psychotherapy Department of the Royal Edinburgh Hospital.