Dr Judith Anderson MB ChB MRCPsych 94 Upper Holly Walk Leamington Spa CV32 4JP TEL 01926 421524 www.leamingtonspapsychotherapy.co.uk email:[email protected]

Curriculum Vitae

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Education: East Grinstead County Grammar School

Qualifications: MB ChB University of Aberdeen 1975 (Distinction in Mental Health and Commendation in Social Medicine) MRCPsych 1980 Jungian Analytical Psychotherapy 1995 Research MA in Clinical Psychoanalysis University of Herts/ Guild of Psychotherapists 2004

Current Post: Psychotherapist and Consultant Psychiatrist (private practice)

Previous posts:

1987-1993 Consultant Psychiatrist/Hon Senior Lecturer South Lincolnshire Health Authority/University of Leicester

Clinical Experience As a trainee psychiatrist I had a major role in developing the first Liaison Psychiatry service at Queen’s Medical Centre in Nottingham. Collaborative work was carried out with physicians on the assessment of Deliberate Self Harm cases. I carried out research into the psychological effects of different treatments for breast cancer. I also co-led Balint groups for GP trainees. The Consultant post in South Lincolnshire was a development post setting up a Community Mental Health Team in an area previously serviced for years by retired locum consultants. I was also responsible for Long Stay services and Rehabilitation. In the Senior Lecturer part of the work my main responsibilities were : Research (with Department of Community Medicine) into the epidemiology of dementia Research (with Department of Genetics) into psychological aspects of genetic testing for Huntingdon’s disease Teaching of trainee psychiatrists Supervision of research thesis B.Sc medical student

Current Practice

Since 1993 I have worked in private practice, dividing my time between analytic psychotherapy and medico legal report writing.

- Psychotherapy 2

Between 1992 and 1995 I undertook a four year part time training in Jungian Analytical Psychotherapy with the West Midlands Institute of Psychotherapy. This led to a qualification in Jungian Analytical Psychotherapy. I am on the UKCP Register of Psychotherapists. My psychotherapy practice has been well supervised by senior analysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists. I regularly attend meetings and conferences on psychotherapy, and read and study privately. I have supervised the work of counsellors and other psychotherapists for some years. I have acted as training therapist for a number of psychotherapy and counselling courses. My usual patient load has always included long term work with survivors of sexual abuse and personality difficulties of a borderline nature.

Since 2009 I have trained in a form of Energy Psychotherapy which is very useful in cases of trauma (rather like EMDR), Advanced Integrative Therapy, and am a Certified AIT Practitioner, Teacher and Supervisor

Couple Work I see couples as well as individuals, and regularly assist at couples workshops

Parenting Training

November –December 2011 I trained to offer parenting workshops. This informs my practice with indic=viduals involved in Children Act proceedings

Medico-Legal Practice 1993-2011 I gave up my medico-legal practice at the end of 2011 to focus on clincal work. I am not taking any new cases since then, but there is still ongoing work with a few outstanding complex cases.

Family Law

In the area of Children Act Proceedings I have prepared in total about 900 reports including in highly complex cases of alleged Factitious Illness syndrome. Many of the parents I assess have personality disorders including Borderline Personality Disorder, and a history of childhood sexual or other forms of abuse and neglect. I regularly give evidence in Court.

My training and practice as a Psychotherapist was highly relevant for the assessment of parents in child care cases as many parents themselves have had highly dysfunctional experiences of being parented and presented with serious personality and/or attachment issues. I brought to my assessment in these cases knowledge of the research findings of the impact that adult behaviour has on the development of the child and day to day clinical experience of in depth psychotherapy with adults that at times may focus on issues from their childhood. My experience of assessments for my psychotherapy practice also informed my opinion on prospects for change and recommendations for appropriate psychiatric and psychological treatments.

Personal Injury

I accumulated experience of preparing about 80 reports in cases where there are alleged issues of professional malpractice, negligence and abuse of the professional relationship by psychiatric social workers, priests, psychiatrists and other doctors, psychotherapists, counsellors, community psychiatric nurses, psychologists and other professionals. For 18 years I regularly gave opinions on Duty of Care, and Causation Condition and Prognosis in cases involving not only doctors, but across the spectrum of mental healthcare. 3

Publications –Psychiatric Research

Various arising from Research (with Department of Community Medicine University of Leicester) into the epidemiology of dementia, Research (with Department of Genetics) into psychological aspects of genetic testing for Huntingdon’s disease

Publications - Psychotherapy

Theory of Mind - a Jungian Perspective, Journal of the West Midlands Institute of Psychotherapy 1998

Exploring Forgiveness in the Psychoanalytic Encounter. MA Thesis University of Hertfordshire, Dec 2004

Forgiveness – a relational process: research and reflections. European Journal of Psychotherapy and Counselling 2007; 9(1): 63-76

TEACHING

I teach regularly on the local (West Midlands Institute of Psychotherapy) training in Jungian Analytical Psychotherapy, most recently on Depression (March ‘09 and January ‘10), The Research Infant (April ‘08) and on Obsessional States (March ’07 and March ‘11).

I have also been visiting lecturer for trainees at the Institute for Arts in Therapy and Education and External examiner for an NLP organisation 2009, and 2010.

PUBLIC LECTURES (Recent)

November 2007 Guild of Pastoral Psychology – Exploring Forgiveness

July 2006 at international conference of the International Association for Jungian Studies – Forgiveness, Imagining the Other

July 2005 Jungian Public Lecture, West Midlands Institute of Psychotherapy - The Wound and the Weapon

ADMINISTRATION

PCSR – From 2004-2011 I was Chair of Psychotherapists and Counsellors for Social Responsibility, a national body which organises events at the interface between psychotherapy and politics, for example Climate Change and the psychological effects of government policies on asylum seekers.

Climate Psychology Alliance – I am on the founding steering group of a new organisation bringing together insights from different psychological disciplines.

UKCP CPJA College – The College of Psychoanalyis and Jungian Analysis of UKCP represents over 30 analytic training organisations and about 1600 psychotherapists. I was a member of the executive committee for 3 years and made a significant contribution to the thinking of the Section in relation to CPD, the handling of complaints, and the forthcoming regulation of psychotherapists by the Health Professions Council (HPC). I regularly take part in Quinquennial Reviews of training.