Bernadette Hawkes

Bernadette Hawkes is a Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist and the Clinical Services Manager for the Mapesbury Clinic for People in Exile.

Her interests are in the areas of intercultural and forensic therapy and the use of African Caribbean literature in psychotherapy.

She is the former Book Reviews Editor of the International Journal of Psychotherapy and has published several articles including ‘Resilience, Suffering and Creativity: the Work of the Refugee Centre’, ‘Hearing the Unhearable, Speaking the Unspeakable: original wounds, trauma, and the asylum seeker’.