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DORIS BENREY (Child Psychotherapy Graduate 1983-88)
I trained at the AFC ( from 1983-1988 and I went back to my country of origin: Mexico to work in a Public Children’s Hospital for five years while building up my private practice. I moved to Switzerland in 1995 and since 1998 I have been working as a Psychologist/Therapist in a school seeing parents from children age two until 18 as well as seeing children( 3-18) for non-intensive psychotherapy.
I am interested in programs which implement psychotherapy and therapeutic consultations in schools. I have also had the privilege to work with children in the Autistic spectrum (ASD) and helped implement and create programs for them as part of an social-emotional integration initiative taken by international schools around the globe.
NICK MIDGLEY (Child Psychotherapy Graduate 1994-1998)
I’m now working as Head of Programme for Children and Young People at the Centre and continue to supervise dissertations and teach the Psychoanalytic Concepts course on the MSc. I’ve also been working on the IMPACT study, which is the largest RCT that psychoanalytic child and adolescent psychotherapy has ever been involved with, investigating the treatment of adolescents with severe depression. It is an exciting study, based across three sites in the UK (London, Manchester and East Anglia), with co-operation from the Universities of Cambridge, Manchester and UCL. Over the coming three years more than 500 young people will be offered treatment as part of the study, and as part of the study child psychotherapists from the Tavistock and the Anna Freud Centre worked together on writing a manual of ‘short term psychodynamic psychotherapy for adolescents with depression’, which we hope will be published at some point. A group of us also worked on an edited book in 2009 called Child Psychotherapy and Research: New Directions, Emerging Findings (London: Routledge) and I’m currently co-editing a volume on ‘mentalization-based interventions for children, young people and families’, which should be published (again by Routledge) at the end of 2011. I’m also writing a book for the New Library of Psychoanalysis about the work of Anna Freud, due to be completed in 2012 – if I can find the time to work on it!
KERRY AND JACK NOVICK (Child Psychotherapy Graduate 1965/1966)
I am writing specifically with a funny historical note - for many years, the phone list that Gina maintained at the front door reception desk had a heading on it that read "Qualified Students." Many of us found this exquisitely ironic, since it seemed to us to represent the Clinic's (Anna Freud's?) ambivalence about anyone finishing the course and leaving, i.e. changing status. Your letter, in the timelessness of the unconscious, repeats this in your appellation "ex Child Psychotherapy trainees." No, we are graduates, or qualified Child Psychotherapists or Child Psychoanalysts.
On the second page, it is more accurate, but you might want to consider ensuring that this underground message is not perpetuated .... looking forward to the organization of the Association and of the website - please send to us all by email forms that can be completed online to sign on, up and in.
