Judith Issroff is South African-born, British and Israeli, a quintessential product of the Tavistock Clinic, School of Family Psychiatry and Community Mental Health and the Independent British Psychoanalytic tradition. She is a specialist Child, Adolescent and Family Psychiatrist, who was John Bowlby's registrar in the Department of Children and Parents. She is qualified also in the analysis of children, adolescents, as a group analyst, and in conflict management. Her experience with survivors of trauma and in cross-cultural and social psychiatry is extensive. Following her mentors, Winnicott and Derek Miller, she has supervised and lectured in a variety of situations and published on many topics.
Christopher Reeves is a retired Child Psychotherapist. After studying psychology and philosophy at Oxford, he trained in the Department of Children and Parents at the Tavistock Clinic during John Bowlby's tenure as Chair, while also completing a PhD in philosophy at UCL. For two years he attended clinical seminars run by Donald Winnicott. In addition to local authority child guidance work, he was for many years associated with the Mulberry Bush School. He was Chairman of the Medical Section of the British Psychological Society and Editor of the Journal of Child Psychotherapy. He has written widely on child psychotherapy, therapeutic education, philosophy and the history of ideas.
