Dr Estela Welldon

Dr Estela V. Welldon MD DSc (Hon) FRC PSYCH is the Founder and Honorary Elected President for Life of the International Association for Forensic Psychotherapy; Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists; Honorary Doctor in Sciences Oxford Brookes University; Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist in Psychotherapy at Tavistock Portman NHS Clinics; Honorary member of the American Psychoanalytic Association for Psychoanalysis.

She is a Member of the BAP, the CBP, IGA, AGP, IAGP and Honorary member of the Society of Couple Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists, Tavistock Clinic. She works privately as a psychoanalytical psychotherapist. and lectures worldwide. She is the author of many papers and chapters on Group Analytical Psychotherapy and Forensic Psychotherapy and the following books: Mother Madonna Whore, the Idealisation and Denigration of Motherhood (1988); translated into 11 languages; Sadomasochism (2002 , translated into 4 languages; Playing with Dynamite: A Personal Approach to the Understanding of Perversions, Violence and Criminality (Karnac, 2011) translated into Spanish (Psimatica 2014) and main editor of A Practical Guide to Forensic Psychotherapy (1997).

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