Ethics of Supervision in Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy (DIT)

Alessandra Lemma

Alessandra Lemma is a Fellow of the British Psychoanalytic Society and a Chartered Clinical and Counselling Psychologist with extensive experience as a clinician, academic, and author. Currently Visiting Professor in the Psychoanalysis Unit, University College London, Consultant, Clinical Psychologist, DIT at the Anna Freud Centre, and Visiting Professor at Centro Winnicott, Rome. Formerly Head of Psychology and Professor of Psychological Therapies at the Tavistock Clinic.

She is the recipient of the 2022 Sigourney Award, the 2025 Scharff Award, and the British Psychoanalytic Council’s 2025 Bernard Rattigan Award for Psychoanalysis and Diversity.

Her most recent books are First Principles: Applied Ethics for Psychoanalytic Practice (OUP, 2023) and Psychotechnical Becomings; Psychoanalysis, Identity, Desire and Mourning in Times of AI and Digital Mediation (Routledge, 2026) and forthcoming is: Journeying Through Psychoanalysis: Lessons from the Couch (Wiley, 2027).

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