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Taking ActionTaking Action with the Real David Cameron and Suzanne Zeedyk, ACEs CampaignerI know that people can listen to this podcast anytime, but it is being posted as the Christmas edition for 2025 and it is, appropriately, a cracker!!Suzanne Zeedyk has been mentioned in a number of the earlier episodes and has, clearly, been hugely influential in the efforts to make sure that the Scottish public is a familiar as possible with the science of ACEs. The idea for this "Taking Action” series stemmed from Suzanne's vision for a year of celebration to mark the 20 years of Scotland's ACE's journey. Many of the guests have come from connections th...
2025-12-1952 min
Last WordAnnie Nightingale, Isca Salzberger-Wittenberg, Bryan Ansell, Charlie AllanMatthew Bannister onAnnie Nightingale who was Radio 1’s first female presenter and its longest serving DJ. Her son remembers meeting Jimi Hendrix over breakfast in her kitchen and the 72-hour-party at her home featuring some of the biggest names of the dance music scene.Isca Salzberger-Wittenberg, the psychoanalyst who changed the approach to treating young people’s mental health.Bryan Ansell, the games designer who co-created Warhammer and helped led the growth of the Games Workshop company.And Charlie Allan who was a Scottish farmer, an economist, a broadcaster and a ca...
2024-01-1927 min
MINDinMINDJeanne Magagna | Legacy Interview | Specialist in Baby Observation & Eating Disorders in ChildrenLegacy Interview with Dr Jeanne Magagna Jeanne is a Child, Adolescent and Family Psychotherapist, who during a career spanning more than fifty years has contributed substantially to the field of child mental health. Jeanne led the Psychotherapy Services at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London for 24 years where she specialised in eating disorders. Her latest book Psychotherapeutic Understanding of Children and Young People with Eating Disorders has just been published. Listeners to the MINDinMIND podcast can get a 20% discount with this code: FLR40.In this interview with Jane O’Rourke, her...
2022-01-181h 25
MINDinMINDLydia Tischler: Child Psychotherapy pioneer and courageous innovator in child & family mental healthLydia Tischler was one of the first child psychotherapists to train with Anna Freud. Her advocacy for children began early and in traumatic circumstances in concentration camps where she spent her teenage years caring for younger children during the Second World War. She came to the UK as a refugee and embarked on a seventy-year career that’s been marked by courageous innovation."One of the ways you can mother yourself is to mother other children", Lydia tells Jane O’Rourke in this interview. Lydia’s mother was tragically murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camp. After qualifying, Lydia be...
2021-06-0551 minMINDinMINDInterview with the world's oldest living child psychotherapist: 98 yrs old Isca Wittenberg98 YEARS OLD ISCA WITTENBERG ON SHAPING SERVICES AND OUR THINKING ON CHILD & ADOLESCENT MENTAL HEALTHGo to www.mindinmind.org.uk for more information including a transcript of this interviewWhen Isca Salzberger-Wittenberg was 11 years old she wrote in her diary, ‘I want to help people when I grow up.’ She is now probably the oldest living child psychotherapist and without a doubt has fulfilled her young self’s wish.Over the course of a career which has extended more than 70 years, Isca has had a lasting impact on mental health services for childr...
2021-02-2659 minMINDinMINDCovid-19: Human Suffering And Anxiety Brings Children Possibilities For Emotional Growth. Interview Thought Piece with Neil AltmanNeil Altman believes that whilst there is great human suffering and anxiety provoked by Covid-19, it also provides an opportunity for children to grow emotionally and cognitively.In this hopeful and stimulating interview with Jane O'Rourke, he urges us to be brave about what we talk about with children so they can be helped to avoid the blindspots adults have over issues such as racism and inequality.Neil also discusses the links between psychoanalysis and the progressive education movement.Please go to www.mindinmind.org.uk to read Neil's written blog and see our other interviews with leading child mental...
2021-01-1924 minMINDinMINDWhy Take Therapy Out Of The Clinic And Into The Heart Of Our Marginalised Communities? - Jay Perkins, Child, Adolescent & Family PsychotherapistJay Perkins in conversation with Jane O'Rourke for www.mindinmind.org.uk. After struggling to find a way to support marginalised, stigmatised and excluded children, young people and families from within the mental health system, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, Jay Perkins has recently done something different, he’s taken his therapeutic work outside of clinics and with colleagues formed Partisan. They partner with communities with the aim of understanding what the local mental health challenges are and develop trauma-informed approaches which are more attuned to their needs. Go to www.mindinmind.org.uk to watch the video versio...
2021-01-0208 minMINDinMINDTherapeutic Treatment of Neglected Children & Adults - Graham MusicJane O'Rourke interviews Graham Music, a child adolescent and adult psychotherapist who has a passion for neurobiology, psychoanalysis, attachment theory, mindfulness and well that’s to name just a few areas. Because Graham’s curious mind is always on the look out for the less explored areas of psychotherapy and how to think about difficult subjects– and this subject today is – somewhat ironically – overlooked. We are talking about Neglect. Graham says that people who have experienced early neglect are often stuck in shut-down dampened states and do not ask for help, as they’ve not learnt it is possible to...
2020-12-2710 minMINDinMINDWorking 50 years for babies and families: Child Psychotherapist Dilys Daws legacy interviewIt’s not an exaggeration to say that Dilys Daws’ contribution to the field of child mental health and child psychotherapy has been immense. Spanning over five decades, her career as a Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist is notable in many respects as a clinician and shaping public opinion and government policy about the importance of infant mental health.In the 1980’s Dilys began speaking to the public and government about the work of child psychotherapists with their patients, raising awareness of the profession and the difficulties babies and parents experience in a way that had never been done before...
2020-12-1531 minMINDinMIND10 Minute Thought Piece: Getting the best out of online therapy with children, in spite of the glitches!How can you get the best out of therapeutic practice with children online? What happens to the therapeutic relationship when it is mediated by technology? How can our work be as effective as possible despite the challenges? And are there even some benefits to online working such as therapy by email or even text - which some adolescents might prefer? And how about taking children for a walk in the woods before commencing online therapy? Carolyn Hart, Child Psychotherapist gives some innovative therapeutic approaches for helping children and adolescents at this challenging time, in a Thought Piece with Jane O'Ro...
2020-11-2113 minMINDinMINDHow to Educate Children about Bullying: Neil AltmanHow to reconcile adult hypocrisy and bullying whilst preaching kindness to children? In this insightful interview with Jane O'Rourke, Neil Altman argues that for the most part, we adults fail to help children come to terms with what they observe, because we ourselves don’t know how to integrate our own potential for violence and aggression with our kind and loving feelings.Go to our website for Neil's written blog about this:https://www.mindinmind.org.uk/thought-pieces/how-to-educate-young-children-about-bullying/
2020-11-0313 minMINDinMINDJuliet Hopkins: A life in Child Psychotherapy- Uncle John Bowlby, Attachment Theory & PsychoanalysisMINDinMIND INTERVIEW www.mindinmind.org.ukJuliet Hopkins has had a significant impact on child psychotherapy. As the niece of John Bowlby, she robustly defends his place in the field of psychoanalysis, shares her concept of ‘Too Good Mothering’ and how she has integrated attachment theory and research on intergenerational trauma. She recalls how Enid Balint lifted her from depression and how penis envy and hearing about penis envy was a completely normal part of everyday life!Juliet Hopkins was a Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic and the London Child Guidance Training Centr...
2020-10-2851 minMINDinMINDLaunch event of MINDinMIND: Leading child therapists in conversation about what best helps deprived and traumatised childrenOn Oct 1st 2020 to officially launch MINDinMIND, Jane O’Rourke gathered a group of clinicians, who between them have had an enormous influence on child psychotherapy and the children and families they have dedicated their lives to helping.The driving force of MINDinMIND has been to capture the voices of the founding greats of child psychotherapy and you can hear many of them gathered here in discussion about what best helps deprived and traumatised children.· Highlights include GIANNA WILLIAMS, a Consultant Child Psychotherapist and Psychoanalyst and one of the most respected and incisive clinicians in child...
2020-10-181h 28MINDinMINDMonica Lanyado-Transforming Despair to Hope: how to help traumatised children. Legacy interview with MINDinMINDFor 50 years child and adolescent psychotherapist, Monica Lanyado, has been focussed on how to best treat traumatised children. In this legacy interview you can hear what she believes best helps these children, a motivation which has fuelled much of her working life. As anyone who has worked with traumatised children will know, this work is at times harrowing, despairing and exhausting, making demands on us that at times feel unstainable, and yet she says that when sufficient hope cannot be maintained it is not possible to carry on the work. Jane O’Rourke asked her why…. For...
2020-10-081h 06MINDinMINDGianna Polacco Williams: Legacy Interview - how even the most deprived and traumatised children can be helpedWelcome to the launch interview of MINDinMIND where the world’s leading clinicians working in child mental health share their ideas about what best helps children and families. This is the first online platform to curate and centralise high-quality interviews of leading practitioners to bring the most important thinking to current and future professionals working with children and families. Our debut interview is with one of the most respected and incisive clinicians in child mental health today, Gianna Polacco Williams, who has done much to help our understanding of internal defences and eating disorders in particular. She is a...
2020-09-3056 minMINDinMINDMINDinMIND SNEAK PEAK -THE NEW CHANNEL FOR ALL CHILD MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALSPodcasts, videos & research from leading practitioners in child mental healthMINDinMIND is where the world’s leading clinicians working in child mental health share their ideas about what best helps children and families.Now more than ever, all of us working with children need the wisest minds to guide us. Everyone featured here have spent their clinical lives honing their understanding of child and family life.Each week we are adding interviews, blogs and research from leading thinkers and innovators sharing what their experience has taught them about children's minds and how families ca...
2020-09-1801 min