Dr Louise Emanuel - Bio
Dr Louise Emanuel is a Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist at the
Tavistock & Portman NHS Foundation Trust. She is the Under Five Lead for Camden
Services in the Child and Family Department. She is Course Organiser for the PG
Dip/MA in Infant Mental Health, teaches on the clinical training for child
psychotherapists, and she has been the convenor of the Infant Mental Health
Workshop for many years. She also has an interest, and has published papers on,work
with fostered and adopted children, children with learning disabilities, and
consultation to organisations.. She is co-editor of the book: ‘What can the matter be?’
Therapeutic Interventions with Parents, Infants and Young Children, Emanuel, L. &
Bradley, E. eds. (2008) London, Karnac Books, and ‘Understanding your Three Year
Old’ (2005), London, Jessica Kingsley. (Part of the Tavistock Clinic ‘Understanding
your Baby’ series).
Recent Publications: ‘Observation, Reflection and Containment: A psychoanalytic
approach to work with parents and children under five. (with Margaret Rustin)
(2010). In: Off the Couch : Contemporary Psychoanalytic Applications. Eds Lemma,
A and Patrick M, Routledge.
Brief Interventions with parents, infants and young children: A framework for
thinking. In: Infant Mental Health Journal. Special Issue: The Practice of Clinical
Infant Mental Health. Volume 32, Issue 6, pp 673-686, Nov/Dec 2011.
She has lectured in Europe, Brazil, North and South America, Taiwan, South Africa,
Ukraine, and teaches regularly in Italy.
Dr Louise Emanuel – Full Publication list
BOOKS:
1. (2005): Emanuel, L. Understanding Your Three year old (part of the
‘Understanding Your Baby’ Series). Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
2.
(2008) Emanuel, L and Bradley, E. “What can the Matter Be?”
Therapeutic Interventions with Parents, Infants and Young Children.
Karnac Books.
PUBLICATIONS IN PEER REVIEWED JOURNALS:
3. 1997: ‘Facing the damage together’: Some reflections arising from the
treatment in psychotherapy of a severely mentally handicapped child.
In: Journal of Child Psychotherapy, Vol 23 No2 (1997): pp. 279-302
4. 1997: The Nature and Function of Projection and Projective
Identification: from Evacuation to Communication. In: Projective
Psychology, (ed: Gleed, L) (1997) Vol. 42 No 1 pp. 39-54
5. 1999: From Individual to Institution. How the psychotherapy of a
mentally handicapped girl has informed my consultation work in a school.
In: Psychoanalytic Inquiry Journal – Child Psychotherapy, A Report
from the Tavistock Clinic, (1999) Vol 19, 2.
6. 1999: The Effects of Postnatal Depression on Children and Families. In:
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in South Africa, Vol 7, No 1 (1999): pp.
50-67.
A version of this paper is published in the book: “What can the Matter
be?” Therapeutic Interventions with Parents, Infants and Young Children.
Eds Emanuel, L and Bradley, E, entitled: Disruptive and Distressed
toddlers: the impact of undetected maternal depression on infants and
young children. Ch. 8, pp. 136-150.
7.
2000: Canham, H and Emanuel, L: ‘Tied together feelings’. Group
psychotherapy with latency children: the process of forming a cohesive
group.
In: Journal of Child Psychotherapy, Vol 26 No 2, 2000 pp. 281-303.
8. 2002: Becoming a therapeutic school – The consultant’s perspective.
In: Educational Therapy & therapeutic Teaching – the Journal of the
Caspari Foundation. Issue 11.
9. 2002: ‘Deprivation X3’: The contribution of organizational dynamics to
the ‘triple deprivation’ of looked-after children.
In: The Journal of Child Psychotherapy: Vol 28 No 2, 2002 pp.163179.
10. 2002: Parents United: Addressing parental issues in working with
infants and young children.
In: International Journal of Infant Observation, 5 (2):103-117.
(A version of this paper is published in the book: “What can the Matter
be?” Therapeutic Interventions with Parents, Infants and Young
Children. Eds Emanuel, L and Bradley, E, entitled: Father “there and
not there”: the concept of a “united couple” in families with unstable
partnerships. Ch. 11, pp. 187 – 200.
11. 2004: Some thoughts about the Impact of Domestic violence on babies
and young children.
In Journal of Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Vol 16, 2004 Issue 1.
pp. 49 – 53.
12. 2005: A psychodynamic approach to consultation within two contrasting
school settings. (Ch 3).
In: Ed Angela Southall: Consultation in Child and Adolescent Mental
Health Services, Routledge 2005, pp. 37-54.
13. 2006: ‘A slow unfolding – at double speed’: reflections on ways of
working with parents and their young children within the Tavistock
Clinic’s Under Fives Service.
In: Journal of Child Psychotherapy, Vol 32 No 1, (2006) pp. 66-84.
(A version of this paper is published in the book: “What can the Matter
be?” Therapeutic Interventions with Parents, Infants and Young
Children. Eds Emanuel, L and Bradley, E, entitled: ‘A slow unfolding –
at double speed: therapeutic interventions with parents and their young
children.)
14. 2010: Rustin, M and Emanuel, L: ‘Observation, Reflection and
Containment: A psychoanalytic approach to work with parents and
children under five.
In : A.Lemma and M.patrick (Eds) Off The Couch: Contemporary
Psychoanalytic Applications, Routledge.
15. 2011: Brief interventions with parents and young children: A framework
for thinking.
In: Infant mental Health Journal, Special Edition on Clinical
Interventions. Eds Elizabeth Tuters and Yvonne Gaultier (General Ed,
Joy Osofsky) November/December 2011, Volume 32, Issue 6. pp 673 –
686.
16. 2012: Holding on; being held; letting go: the relevance of Bion's
thinking for psychoanalytic work with parents, infants and children
under five.
In: Journal of Child Psychotherapy Volume 38. No 3, pp 268 – 283.
ADDITIONAL PUBLICATIONS:
REVIEWS:
1994: Henry Rey, Universals of Psychoanalysis in the Treatment of Psychotic and
Borderline States, ed. Jeanne Magagna, London: free Association Books, 1994.
IN: Journal of Child Psychotherapy, Vol 27, No 3, December 1995.
2003: Parent-Infant Psychodynamics – Wild Things, Mirrors & Ghosts
In: Journal of Child Psychotherapy , Vol. 31 pp. 140-143. 2005
2008: Clinical commentary (one of 3 responses to clinical material of work with
under fives. IN Journal of Child Psychotherapy, Vol 34, No 3 December 2008,
pp: 411 – 428.
2008: Guardian article, Response Column: 4/12/2008: ‘ I have seen close up how
social workers can be seized by paralysis.