Jeanne Magagna
Jeanne Magagna, Phd., is a Taivstock Clinic trained Child, Adult and Family Psychotherapist who was the Head of Psychotherapy Services at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London where she specialised in working with children and families where there was an eating disorder, psychosis, or pervasive retreat from life. Her special area of interest is the application of infant observation and its value for understanding the non-verbalized feelings present in clinical work, early intervention and paediatric assessments. She teaches and publishes internationally. Jeanne is the Joint Editor of Intimate Transformations:Babies with their Families and Editor of The Silent Child: Communication without Words. She is also a co-editor of Being Present for your Nursery Age Child, Creativity and Psychotic States, Psychotherapy with Families and Universals of Psychoanalysis. These books have been published in French, Spanish and English.
Her forthcoming book is The Psychotherapeutic Understanding of Children with Eating Difficulties: Freeing the Imprisoned Self. Jeanne works and writes for an international community.