Playing with Dynamite

Dr Estela V. Welldon, MD, HonDSc, FRCPsych, is an Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist in Psychotherapy at Tavistock and Portman NHS Clinics. She is the Founder and the Honorary Life President of the International Association for Forensic Psychotherapy. In 1997, she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Science by Oxford Brookes University. Welldon works privately as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and organizational consultant. She is a Member of the British Association for Psychotherapy, the British Psychoanalytic Council, the Institute of Group Analysis, the American Group Psychotherapy Association and the International Association for Group Psychotherapy. She is the author of 'Mother, Madonna, Whore: The Idealization and Denigration of Motherhood' (1988) and 'Sadomasochism' (2002) and is the main editor of 'A Practical Guide to Forensic Psychotherapy' (1997).

Series Foreword , Foreword , Foreword , Foreword , Introduction , An interview with Estela V. Welldon, July 1996 , The true nature of perversions , Perverse transference and the malignant bonding , Babies as transitional objects: another manifestation of perverted motherhood , Is Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy another case of female perversion? , Bodies across generations and cycles of abuse , Children who witness domestic violence: what future? , An interview with Estela V. Welldon, July 1999 , The unique contribution of group analytic psychotherapy for victims and perpetrators of incest , Introduction to forensic psychotherapy , From the court to the couch , The Portman Clinic and the IAFP , An interview with Estela V. Welldon, November 2010