Jeanne Magagna

Dr Jeanne Magagna aims to help people observe the deeper aspects of infants' personality in order that infants can be better understood and have more rights to good parenting through our collaborating with and supporting parents to understanding their children. I have edited: Intimate Transformations, The Silent Child, Creativity and Psychotic Sates, all of which show how careful observation and empathic understanding of infants and children and collaboration with parents can ensure babies' right to good parental care. Previously a Head Start Teacher, University Teacher and Special Educator, I then Headed Psychotherapy Services at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children and was a Consultant Psychotherapist in Ellern Mede Centre for Eating Disorders in London. Concurrently I trained and taught for many years at the Tavistock Clinic in London. Psychoanalysis was the best learning experience Jeanne has had as Jeanne worked for and received qualifications as a Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist (PhD level), Family Psychotherapist and Adult Psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic in London. Previously I was a founding member, vice-president and joint coordinator of training and now currently teach at the Centro Studi Martha Harris Tavistock model trainings in Florence and Venice, Italy. In London I work as a private child, adult and family therapist and consult, publish and give talks or teach (suicide, self-harm, anorexia, infant observation) in London and in many countries including Europe, USA, South America, Turkey and Russia.