Introduction to the Practice of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

Professor Alessandra Lemma is Director of the Psychological Therapies Development Unit at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust. She is a Consultant Adult Psychotherapist at the Portman Clinic, where she specialises in working with transsexuals. She is a Fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society and Visiting Professor, Psychoanalysis Unit, University College London and Honorary Professor of Psychological Therapies in the School of Health and Human Sciences at Essex University. She is Visiting Professor, Istituto Winnicott, Sapienza University of Rome and “Centro Winnicott”, Rome. She is the Clinical Director of the Psychological Interventions Research Centre at UCL. She is the Editor of the New Library of Psychoanalysis book series (Routledge) and one of the regional Editors for the International Journal of Psychoanalysis. She has published extensively on psychoanalysis, the body and trauma.