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and Adversity Network Funded by QNIS in partnership with the Burdett Trust for Nursing Applications for 2022/23 are now closed About Speakers Programme Blogs Complexity and Adversity Network Funded by QNIS in partnership with the Burdett Trust for Nursing Applications for 2022/23 are now closed About Programme Speakers Blogs This programme consists of 10 monthly online workshops combines a seminar with an expert speaker, followed by a reflective practice work discussion group facilitated by a clinician with psychodynamic expertise.  We are delivering this programme with support from Human Development Scotland. Read more about our speakers and facilitators by using the arrows below. If you're on desktop you can also click and drag the navigation.

Dr Adam Burley Adam works as a consultant clinical psychologist at the Edinburgh Psychotherapy Department providing a service dedicated to the provision of care to individuals who struggle to access mainstream care, as well as providing input to a wide range of public and third sector organisations across the homeless sector. He graduated from St. Andrews University in 1994 with a psychology degree, before completing a doctorate in clinical psychology in Edinburgh in 1998. He subsequently worked in New Zealand, establishing a clinical psychology service in a rural district working with marginalised populations, before returning to Scotland in 2004 to develop the homeless clinical psychology and psychotherapy service which he currently runs. He has a particular interest in health inequalities, exclusion dynamics, early years and the psychology of adversity. Read more about Dr Adam Burley June Campbell June M Campbell trained in psychoanalytic psychotherapy at the Scottish Institute of Human Relations and worked for many years as an Adult Psychotherapist in the NHS. Her remit included outreach work in the wider community, including collaborative work with the Edinburgh Housing Department in a pilot project focussed on homelessness in the city. She was also responsible for running the Childhood Sexual Abuse Service at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital, which included supporting a wide range of professionals in various community settings. She works in private practice.  June M. Campbell. "Homelessness and containment."
Psychoanalytic Thinking on the Unhoused Mind, edited by Gabrielle Brown, Routledge, 2019, p.13. June M. Campbell. "There's no place like home: On dwelling and Unheimlichkeit."
Psychoanalytic Thinking on the Unhoused Mind, edited by Gabrielle Brown, Routledge, 2019, p.17. Dr Debbie Hindle Dr. Debbie Hindle is a consultant child and adolescent psychotherapist, trained at the Tavistock Clinic. For ten years, she was Head of the Clinical Training in Child Psychotherapy at the Scottish Institute of Human Relations in Edinburgh and worked clinically in a specialist Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service in Glasgow for children who were fostered or adopted. She has written extensively, including three co-edited books -Personality Development: A Psychoanalytic Perspective (1999); The Emotional Experience of Adoption: A Psychoanalytic Perspective (2008); and Sibling Matters: A Psychoanalytic, Developmental and Systemic Approach (2014). Now retired from the NHS, she continues to teach, supervise and lecture. Read more about Dr Debbie Hindle Dr Celeste Foster Celeste is a senior adolescent mental health nurse, registered adolescent psychotherapist and academic who has been working in Child and Adolescent Mental Health, since 1995. Celeste is a senior lecturer in adolescent mental health within the Directorate of Nursing and Midwifery, School of Health & Society, at the University of Salford. As an early career researcher, she has published in the subjects of psychoanalytic approaches to working with adolescents and their professional networks in relation to self-harm, complex psychosomatic presentations and developmental trauma. She has led several multi-professional research studies investigating effective whole-school approaches to pupil emotional wellbeing, and effective interventions for adolescents with complex and severe mental health needs. Read more about Dr Celeste Foster Mary MacCallum Sullivan Mary's background is in psychotherapy and counselling education and training, at post-graduate level, as teacher, team leader and manager.  She is an experienced practitioner working with a wide range of clients. Co-author with Harriett Goldenberg of Cradling the Chrysalis: Teaching/Learning Psychotherapy (2015) UKCP/Karnac, editor of Unconscious Communication In Practice (1999) Open University Press, and co-editor with Bernard Burgoyne of The Klein-Lacan Dialogues (1997) Rebus Press. Read more about Mary MacCallum Sullivan Graham Montieth Graham became Chair of Human Development Scotland in 2018. He is a retired NHS senior manager with a clinical background in mental health nursing and a long record of promoting psychotherapy, psychodynamic thinking and a deeper understanding of human relations work. In addition to his work in mental health services as a clinician and manager Graham served for two years (2010-12) in a policy role as the CAMHS advisor to the Scottish Government. Graham has also been a trustee with the Sutherland Trust and an Independent Prison Monitor. Read more about Graham Montieth Dr Elaine Ogg Elaine trained as a general practitioner 30 years ago but very quickly became interested in mental health, therefore moved to specialist training in Psychiatry. She worked for 20 years as a consultant Psychiatrist. Elaine's psychiatry has always included talking therapy and a psychodynamic understanding of her patients’ difficulties and she trained in Psychoanalytical Psychotherapy. Elaine is now semi-retired from the NHS but into her second year as a private practitioner in psychotherapy. Her experience has shown her the value of psychotherapy and Elaine is passionate about supporting Human Development Scotland in its aims. Read more about Dr Elaine Ogg Dr Adam Polnay Adam is a consultant psychiatrist in psychotherapy and a member of the Scottish Association of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists (SAPP). He is an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and an Anna Freud Centre-accredited MBT Practitioner. Adam works at The State Hospital (Carstairs) and leads the NHS Lothian Psychotherapy Department. Adam is involved in the Scottish Forensic Network, particularly in developing Reflective Practice Group services and teaching psychodynamic concepts. His current main research area is the evaluation of psychodynamic Reflective Practice Groups. Read more about Dr Adam Polnay Dr Salma Siddique Dr Salma Siddique PTSTA, FHEA, FRAI FRSA Her main research teaching is based on the dialogue between psychoanalysis, psychotherapy and anthropology and is influenced by her clinical experience working with people in trauma resulting from oppression, abuse, torture, fleeing disaster and conflict zones.  She is a regular contributor to research and relational ethical practice writings as a clinical anthropologist. An academic based at School of Philosophical Anthropological & Film Studies University of St-Andrews. A regular Editorial Board Member, European Journal for Qualitative Research in Psychotherapy: www.EJQRP.org Salma’s most recent publication is (2019) Chapter 6. Western Configurations: Ways of Being in Psychotherapy, Anthropology and the Work of Culture, London, Routledge Publications.  Read more about Dr Salma Siddique Dr Gary Winship Associate Professor in the School of Education, University of Nottingham. Course Leader MA Trauma Studies. Editor: International Journal of Therapeutic Communities. Senior Fellow and arts co-ordinator of the Institute of Mental Health, Nottingham University. UKCP registered psychoanalytic psychotherapist, NMC registered Mental Health Nurse, Chair of training standards for the University Psychotherapy & Counselling Association (UPCA). NMC registered Mental Health Nurse. Chair: appointments panel for the Annual Skellern Lecture & Wiley-Blackwell Lifetime Achievement Award in Mental Health (see www.skellern.info) Read more about Dr Gary Winship Dr Angela Drinnan Angela initially trained as a Clinical Psychologist at Salomons in Kent before going on to complete her Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy training at the Guild of Psychotherapists in London. Her clinical work was in the diverse and deprived boroughs of Southeast London prior to moving back to Edinburgh in 2018. Along the way she has done further training in group work at the Institute of Group Analysis, trauma work at the Tavistock, and Mentalisation Based Therapy training with the Anna Freud Centre. Currently she works in both private practice and in the NHS, based at the Psychotherapy Department in the Royal Edinburgh Hospital, doing a combination of individual work, group work and supervision. Areas of particular clinical interest for Angela are the intergenerational transmission of trauma, and the somatisation of psychological distress. Read more about Angela Drinnan Tom Palmer Tom’s professional background is in Mental Health Nursing. He worked as a nurse for 10 years before training as a Group Analyst between 2009 and 2018. Currently he works part time in the Psychotherapy Department in NHS Lothian as an Adult Psychotherapist/Group Analyst, and he also has a private practice in Edinburgh offering individual and group psychotherapy. Read more about Tom Palmer