In this legacy interview, leading psychologist Clinical Professor (at the University of California and New York University) Stephen Seligman, shares his lifetime’s clinical practice and thinking as an acclaimed psychoanalyst/psychotherapist with adults, children and infants.  He argues that today’s research on attachment and human development changes how we should think about babies, brains, families and psychotherapy. Stephen discusses his extensive work with children and families,...

Trauma can have long lasting effects on a child’s mental health and physical health. Learn more about the latest research and interventions for traumatised children in this interview with leading psychiatrist and researcher, Professor Helen Minnis. What interventions are most helpful for children and their families who have experienced trauma? This is a question that Helen Minnis, Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Glasgow, is seeking to answer. She has become...

Legacy Interview with Dr Jeanne Magagna    Jeanne is a Child, Adolescent and Family Psychotherapist, who during a career spanning more than fifty years has contributed substantially to the field of child mental health.     Jeanne led the Psychotherapy Services at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London for 24 years where she specialised in eating disorders.     Her latest book Psychotherapeutic Understanding of Children and Young People with Eating Disorders has just been...

Lydia Tischler was one of the first child psychotherapists to train with Anna Freud.  Her advocacy for children began early and in traumatic circumstances in concentration camps where she spent her teenage years caring for younger children during the Second World War.  She came to the UK as a refugee and embarked on a seventy-year career that’s been marked by courageous innovation. "One of the ways you can mother yourself is to mother other children", Lydia tells Jane O’Rourke in this...

98 YEARS OLD ISCA WITTENBERG ON SHAPING SERVICES AND OUR THINKING ON CHILD & ADOLESCENT MENTAL HEALTH Go to www.mindinmind.org.uk for more information including a transcript of this interview When Isca Salzberger-Wittenberg was 11 years old she wrote in her diary, ‘I want to help people when I grow up.’ She is now probably the oldest living child psychotherapist and without a doubt has fulfilled her young self’s wish. Over the course of a career which has extended more than 70 years,...

Neil Altman believes that whilst there is great human suffering and anxiety provoked by Covid-19, it also provides an opportunity for children to grow emotionally and cognitively. In this hopeful and stimulating interview with Jane O'Rourke, he urges us to be brave about what we talk about with children so they can be helped to avoid the blindspots adults have over issues such as racism and inequality. Neil also discusses the links between psychoanalysis and the progressive education...

Jay Perkins in conversation with  Jane O'Rourke for www.mindinmind.org.uk.  After struggling to find a way to support marginalised, stigmatised and excluded children, young people and families from within the mental health system, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, Jay Perkins has recently done something different, he’s taken his therapeutic work outside of clinics and with colleagues formed Partisan. They partner with communities with the aim of understanding what the local mental health...

Jane O'Rourke interviews Graham Music, a child adolescent and adult psychotherapist who has a passion for neurobiology, psychoanalysis, attachment theory, mindfulness and well that’s to name just a few areas. Because Graham’s curious mind is always on the look out for the less explored areas of psychotherapy and how to think about difficult subjects– and this subject today is – somewhat ironically – overlooked.   We are talking about Neglect.  Graham says that people who have experienced...

It’s not an exaggeration to say that Dilys Daws’ contribution to the field of child mental health and child psychotherapy has been immense.  Spanning over five decades, her career as a Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist is notable in many respects as a clinician and shaping public opinion and government policy about the importance of infant mental health. In the 1980’s Dilys began speaking to the public and government about the work of child psychotherapists with their patients, raising...

How can you get the best out of therapeutic practice with children online? What happens to the therapeutic relationship when it is mediated by technology? How can our work be as effective as possible despite the challenges? And are there even some benefits to online working such as therapy by email or even text - which some adolescents might prefer? And how about taking children for a walk in the woods before commencing online therapy? Carolyn Hart, Child Psychotherapist gives some innovative...

How can you get the best out of therapeutic practice with children online? What happens to the therapeutic relationship when it is mediated by technology? How can our work be as effective as possible despite the challenges? And are there even some benefits to online working such as therapy by email or even text which adolescents might prefer? And how about taking patients for a walk in the woods? Carolyn Hart, Child Psychotherapist gives some innovative therapeutic approaches for helping...

How to reconcile adult hypocrisy and bullying whilst preaching kindness to children?   In this insightful  interview with Jane O'Rourke, Neil Altman argues that for the most part, we adults fail to help children come to terms with what they observe, because we ourselves don’t know how to integrate our own potential for violence and aggression with our kind and loving feelings. Go to our website for Neil's written blog about...

MINDinMIND INTERVIEW www.mindinmind.org.uk Juliet Hopkins has had a significant impact on child psychotherapy.  As the niece of John Bowlby, she robustly defends his place in the field of psychoanalysis, shares her concept of ‘Too Good Mothering’ and how she has integrated attachment theory and research on intergenerational trauma. She recalls how Enid Balint lifted her from depression and how penis envy and hearing about penis envy was a completely normal part of everyday life! Juliet...

On Oct 1st 2020 to officially launch MINDinMIND, Jane O’Rourke gathered a group of clinicians, who between them have had an enormous influence on child psychotherapy and the children and families they have dedicated their lives to helping. The driving force of MINDinMIND has been to capture the voices of the founding greats of child psychotherapy and you can hear many of them gathered here in discussion about what best helps deprived and traumatised children. ·  Highlights include GIANNA...

For 50 years child and adolescent psychotherapist, Monica Lanyado, has been focussed on how to best treat traumatised children.   In this legacy interview you can hear what she believes best helps these children, a motivation which has fuelled much of her working life. As anyone who has worked with traumatised children will know, this work is at times harrowing, despairing and exhausting, making demands on us that at times feel unstainable, and yet she says that when sufficient hope cannot...

Welcome to the launch interview of MINDinMIND where the world’s leading clinicians working in child mental health share their ideas about what best helps children and families.  This is the first online platform to curate and centralise high-quality interviews of leading practitioners to bring the most important thinking to current and future professionals working with children and families.  Our debut interview is with one of the most respected and incisive clinicians in child mental health...

Podcasts, videos & research from leading practitioners in child mental health Welcome to MINDinMIND where the world’s leading clinicians working in child mental health share their ideas about what best helps children and families. Now more than ever, all of us working with children need the wisest minds to guide us. Everyone featured here have spent their clinical lives honing their understanding of child and family life. Each week we will be adding interviews, blogs and research from...