Curriculum Vitae
Name:
Margaret Rustin
B.A. (Hons) M.A.C.P., T.Q.A.P
Academic Qualifications (higher education and professional):
1961-63
1963-66
1967-71
1999
Hons.Mods in Classics, Somerville College, Oxford
B.A.Hons in Philosophy, University College London
Tavistock Clinic Training in Child Psychotherapy
Qualified as Adult Psychotherapist, Tavistock Clinic
Professional experience, including details of current posts:
1966-68
1966-68
1968-71
1972-75
1975-86
1986-onwards
Part-time lecturer in Philosophy, Polytechnic of North London
Part-time teacher, Essendine Infant School
Child Psychotherapist at Tavistock Clinic, St George’s Hospital Child Psychiatry
Department and Harrow Child Guidance Clinic
Senior Child Psychotherapist (part-time) Tavistock Clinic and Newham Child Guidance
Clinic
Principal Child Psychotherapist, Tavistock Clinic
Top Grade Child Psychotherapist, Head of Child Psychotherapy Discipline and
Organising Tutor of the Child Psychotherapy Training
Tavistock Clinic Appointments:
1987-93
1993-99
2002-05
Vice Dean, Child and Family Department
Dean of Postgraduate Studies, Tavistock & Portman NHS Trust
Chair of the Professional Committee, Tavistock Clinic
Executive Director, Tavistock & Portman NHS Trust
Other Professional Activities:
1985
1979 to present
Since 1989
1996 to 2000
Lecturer (part-time) in Child Psychotherapy, Rutgers University Medical School,
U.S.A.
Tutor (by termly visits) on Child Psychotherapy courses linked to the Tavistock Clinic
in Rome, Naples, Milan, Leeds, Edinburgh and Istanbul.
Honorary Lecturer, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of East London
External Examiner to MSc Course in Psychoanalytic Observational Studies at
University of Leeds
Membership of Professional Bodies:
1971
1984
1973-79
1985 to present
1997 to present
2000 to present
Member of Association of Child Psychotherapists.
Member of Association of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists in the NHS.
Member of Association of Child Psychologists and Psychiatrists
Honorary Member of Italian Association of Child Psychotherapists (AIPPI)
Assistant Editor, Journal of Child Psychotherapy
Subsequently, Member of Editorial Board
Member of Editorial Board, Free Associations
Member of Editorial Board of International Journal of Infant Observation
Member of Editorial Board of ‘Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy’
2004 to present
Honorary Affiliate of the Institute of Psychoanalysis
Research & consultancy experience and current special interests:
Research
Cross-national study on psychological treatment of depression in young adolescents: England/Finland/Greece.
Funded by E.C.
Psychotherapy with sexually abused girls: supervision processes. Funded by Department of Health.
Early Intervention: the use of infant observation as a clinical intervention for toddlers at risk of autism.
Consultancy
Thomas Coram Foundation: Consultant to the Adoption Team
University of Naples, Italy: Consultant to project teaching 13-16 year old school dropouts
Current Interests
Foster and Adoptive families
Child Psychotherapy Training Developments
Literature and Psychoanalysis
Recent Conference Presentations:
‘Conceptual Analysis of Critical Moments in Victoria’s Life’
Tavistock Clinic 10th October 2003
Westminster City Council Area Child Protection Conference 12th November 2003
Isle of Man Social Services ‘Facing Difficult Realities’ Conference 27 th Feb. 2004
Citation for Philip Pullman for Hon. D. Litt
Tavistock Clinic Graduation Ceremony, Hampstead Town Hall 24th January 2004
‘Observation Observed’ presentation
10th Anniversary Conference, ‘Because Drugs Aren’t Enough: The Benefits of Psychotherapy in Child &
Adolescent Mental Health’, Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services, Mid-Western Health Board, Limerick,
Ireland, 6th February 2004
‘Bearing the Unbearable: Reflections on Psychotherapeutic Work with a 15 Year Old Asylum Seeker’
Research and Reflective Practice in Therapeutic Work with Children, Young People and their Families
Conference Stirling Management Centre, University of Stirling 5th March 2004
Paper for Colloquium: Personal Lives and Social Policy
The Open University Faculty of Social Sciences 7th May 2004
(Jointly with Michael Rustin)
‘Psychoanalysis and Drama: Reflections on Siblings’
Tavistock Clinic Public Lecture Series
Tavistock Clinic:
27th April 2004 Sophocles
11th May 2004 Shakespeare
25th May 2004 Webster
8th June 2004 Chekhov
29th June 2004 Pinter
Keeping the Baby in Mind: How Clinical Work with Children and Adults is Enriched by Experience of
Infant Observation
Tavistock Infant Observation: Links to Clinical Work and Research, The Psychoanalytic Center of California,
Los Angeles, June 2005
Learning is an emotional experience: what are the implications of this fact?
Child and Adolescent Mental Health in Educational Settings Conference, Paris, September 2005
(Jointly with Michael Rustin)
States of Narcissism
Psychoanalysis and History Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, November 2005
British Psychoanalytical Lecture Series on Narcissism, November 2005
The therapist with her back against the wall
Centro Studi Martha Harris e Associazione Marth Harris di Psicoterapia Psicoanalitica per l’Infanzia
l’Adolescenza – Firenze, February 2006
Taking Account of Siblings – a view from child psychotherapy
Guildford Association of Psychotherapists Public Lecture, March 2006
Learning is an emotional experience: what are the implications of this fact?
Universita degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II”, Naples, April 2006
The relevance of Infant Observation for clinical work with children, adolescents and adults: Some
reflections
Congress VVPT (Flemish Association for Psychoanalytic Therapy), Louvain, Belgium, June 2006
Association of Child Psychotherapists Conference. Conference Chair
York, June 16-18, 2006
(Jointly with Michael Rustin)
Psychoanalytic Insights in Performance
Culture and the Unconscious conference, London, June 30/July 1, 2006
The Enchanted and the Human: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Handel's Operas
Institute of Psychoanalysis, London, July 2006
States of Narcissism
Gothenburg Psychotherapy Institute, Gothenburg, Sweden, September 2006
5th ‘Children in Troubled Worlds Conference – Locating Loss’. Conference Chair
Oxford, September 22, 2006
‘Psychoanalytic Technique Today’, Plenary Presentation at Freud 150th Anniversary Conference.
London, October 15-17, 2006.
Publications: Books
Your Nine Year Old (with Edna O’Shaugnessy), Corgi. 1972
Narratives of Love and Loss: Studies in Modern Children’s Fiction (with Michael Rustin), Verso. 1987
Closely Observed Infants Joint Editor and contributor with Lisa Miller, Michael Rustin and Judy
Shuttleworth. Duckworth 1989
 Translated and published in Italian as Neonati Visti Da Vicino: L’Osservazione Secondo il modello
Tavistock (Italian ed. E. Quagliata) Casa Editrice, Astrolabio 1993
 Translated and published in French as L’Observation Attentive des Bebes Editions Hublot 1996
‘The strengths of a practitioner’s workshop as a new model in clinical research’ in S. Miller and R Szur
(eds) Extending Horizons. Karnac 1991
‘What follows family breakdown? The Psychotherapeutic Assessment of Fostered and Adopted
Children’ Chapter in ‘Un Buon Incontro’ ed. E Quagliata, Astrolabio 1995.
‘Child Psychotherapy within the Kleinian tradition’ Chapter in The Klein-Lacan Dialogues Ed.
Burgoyne and Sullivan. Rebus Press 1997
Psychotic States in Children Joint Editor and contributor with Alex and Helene Dubinsky and Maria Rhode.
Duckworth 1997. Tavistock Clinic Series
 Translated and published in French as Les Etats Psychotiques chez les Enfants Editions Hublot 1997
 Italian and Portuguese translations in preparation
‘The place of consultation with parents and therapy of parents in child psychotherapy’ Chapter in ‘The
Handbook of Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy: Psychoanalytic Approaches’ by Monica Lanyado and Ann
Horne. Routledge 1999
*Dialogues with Parents and Preface to EFPP Monograph - Psychoanalytic psychotherapy with children and
adolescents: Work with Parents. Ed. J. Tsiantis. Athens. Karnac 2000
‘Dialogue avec les parents’ Chapter in Psychotherapies de l’enfant et de l’adolescent: ed. Claudine Geissmann
& Didier Houzel.
Talking Cure
Duckworth/Tavistock. 1999 Several chapters
Psychotic States in Children Joint Editor and contributor with Alex and Helene Dubinsky and Maria Rhode.
Duckworth 1997. Tavistock Clinic Series
 Portuguese translation published by Imago, Sao Paolo, Brazil 2000
Assessment in Child Psychotherapy Revised English edition of Un Buon Incontro (published Rome, 1995).
Edited jointly with Emanuela Quagliata. Tavistock/Karnac Series. New edition 2004
 French translation, Le Processus D’Évaluation Dans La Psychothérapie D’Enfants, Editions du Hublot,
2004
Chapter: ‘Beckett: dramas of psychic catastrophe’ from Exploring the Work of Donald Meltzer A Festschrift.
Edited by Margaret Cohen and Alberto Hahn. Published by Karnac Books, 2000
Narratives of Love and Loss: Studies in Modern Children’s Fiction (with Michael Rustin), Revised Edition.
Karnac, London, 2001.
Mirror to Nature: Drama, Psychoanalysis and Society (with Michael Rustin). Tavistock Clinic
Series/Karnac 2002.
 Translated and published in Italian as Passioni in scena: Teatro, psicoanalisi e società, 2005 Paravia
Bruno Mondadori Editori
Chapter: Narratives and phantasies from Narrative Therapies with Children and their Families. A
practitioner’s guide to concepts and approaches. Edited by Arlene Vetere and Emilia Dowling, Hove
Routledge 2005
Foreword and opening chapter Dialogues with Parents in Work with Parents Edited John Tsiantis et al,
translated into Russian and published 2006 (original publication by Karnac for the European Federation for
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in the Public Health Service, 2002)
Publications: Journal Papers
‘Psychotherapy, Pure and Applied’, Occasional Paper Association of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 1991
‘Observation, Understanding and Interpretation: The Story of a Supervision.’ Journal of Child Psychotherapy
Vol. 3. 1998
Guest Editor of Journal of Infant Observation, Vol 1 No.2 February 1998
‘Dialogues with Parents’ Paper in Journal of Child Psychotherapy Vol. 24 No. 2 1998 Reprinted
in Journal de la Psychanalyse de l’enfant, Vol 21 1998
‘Multiple Families in Mind’ Paper in Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry 4 (1) January 1999
‘The Training of Child Psychotherapists at the Tavistock Clinic: Philosophy and Practice’ Psychoanalytic
Enquiry Vol. 19 No. 2
Review. ‘The Social Baby, by Lynne Murray and Liz Andrews’ (2000). The International Journal of Infant
Observation, 4, i, Autumn 2000, 120-122. Lawrence & Wishart, London.
Review. ‘Psychoanalysis with children’, by Leonardo S Rodriguez, Free Association Books, London and New
York (1999). Journal of Child Psychotherapy, 27, i, 2001, 95-97. ACP, London.
‘Questoes de identitdade na psicoterapia de um adolescente adotivo de origem racial mista’ (Conference
Presentation 26/09/2000). Revista de Psicanalise da Sciedade Psicanalitica de Porto Alegre, VIII, i, April
2001, 109-126. Liana Pinto Chaves, Sao Paulo.
‘Thoughts on transitions between cultures. Jonathon moves from home to school and from class to class.’ (with
L.T. Buck) Infant Observation. The International Journal of Infant Observation and its Applications. 4(2), 2001,
121-133.
Editorial. (with S.M.G. Adamo) The International Journal of Infant Observation, 4, ii, Spring 2001, 3-22;
Lawrence & Wishart, London.
‘The therapist with her back against the wall’. Journal of Child Psychotherapy. 27(3), 2001, 273-284.
‘Response to Maria do Carmo Sousa Lima’s paper’. Journal of the British Association of Psychotherapists, 39,
iii,2001, 103-107. Whurr, London.
‘Struggles in becoming a mother: Reflections from a clinical and observational standpoint’. The International
Journal of Infant Observation and its Applications 5 (1), Spring 2002, 7-20.
Review of Ordinary People and Extraordinary Protections, Judith Mitrani
Observation and its Applications 5 (2), Summer 2002, 118-125.
The International Journal of Infant
‘Supervision of Therapy of Sexually Abused Girls.’ (with R.Emanuel & L.Miller), 2002. Clinical Child
Psychology and Psychiatry SAGE Publications, Vol.7(4):581-594; 027569
‘Where is Home?’ An Essay on Philip Pullman's Northern Lights Volume 1 of His Dark Materials
Michael Rustin) Journal of Child Psychotherapy, vol. 29, no.1, 2003 p.93-105
‘Clinical Commentary’
(with
Journal of Child Psychotherapy, December 2005
‘A New Kind of Friendship’ An Essay on Philip Pullman's The Subtle Knife Volume 2 of His Dark Materials
(with Michael Rustin) Journal of Child Psychotherapy, vol. 29, no.2 2003 p.227-241
‘Learning to Say Goodbye’ An Essay on Philip Pullman's The Amber Spyglass Volume 3 of His Dark
Materials (with Michael Rustin) Journal of Child Psychotherapy, vol. 29, no.3, 2003 p.415-428
Looking into later life: psychodynamic observation and old age (Jointly with R Davenhill, A Balfour, M
Blanchard, K Tress) Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, vol. 17, no.3, 2003 p.253-266
Conceptual analysis of critical moments in Victoria Climbié's life. Child & Family Social Work, Vol 10, No. 1,
February 2005, pp. 11-19
Harry Potter’s Power to Enchant, Books for Keeps (2001).
Pullman’s Daemons Books for Keeps (March 2004)