THIS IS AN INCOMPLETE VERSION OF CATHY URWIN'S CV. NO FULL LIST OF THE NUMEROUS CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND TALKS AFTER 2005 HAS BEEN FOUND
CURRICULUM VITAE
Cathy Urwin
Date of Birth 13th September 1949
Secondary Education
1961-1966 Totnes High School
Totnes
Devon
1966-1968 Maynard School
Exeter
Devon
First Degree
1968-1971 BSc(Hons) Psychology 2.1
Bedford College
University of London
Masters Degree
1971-1972 MA Developmental Psychology
University of Nottingham
Ph D Research
1972-1975 Research into parent-infant interaction and early language development in blind children. Supervised by Dr Martin Richards, Unit for Research into Medical Applications of Psychology, University of Cambridge.
1979 Obtained PhD for thesis entitled, ‘The development of communication between blind infants and their parents: some ways into language’.
Employment
1976-1977 Research associate on Prof Jerry Bruner’s Language Acquisition Project, Experimental Psychology Department, University of Oxford
1977-1981 Lectureship in Developmental Psychology, University of Warwick, Coventry
1981-1989 Margaret Lowenfeld Research Fellow, (Senior Research Fellowship) Child Care and Development Group, University of Cambridge.
1989-1990 Above position part time
1989-1990 Part time locum as Basic Grade Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, Emanuel Miller Centre, Gill Street, Tower Hamlets, London
1990-1992 Full time (10 sessions) Basic Grade Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, Emanuel Miller Centre, Tower Hamlets, East London
1992-2002 Above position re-graded to Grade B in 1992
2002- Above position, Grade B Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, Emanuel Miller Centre, East London, changed temporarily to 8 sessions a week.
Child Psychotherapist with Teviot and Chrisp Street Sure Start Project, 2 sessions a week.
2004- 5 Joint acting Head of Service, Child Psychotherapy, Tower Hamlets
2005 Grade B Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, Emanuel Miller Centre, East London, 10 sessions
From January 2006 Consultant Child Psychotherapist and Research Fellow, Tavistock Centre, London
Further Professional Training
1971-1972 Master’s Course, University of Nottingham, provided BPS recognised probationer status as clinical psychologist working with children.
1982-1989 Observation Course and Child Psychotherapy Training, Tavistock Clinic, London. My training was sponsored by the Margaret Lowenfeld Trust. I saw training patients on an honorary contract at the Child and Family Consultation Service, Cambridge
1989 Qualified as a Member of the Association of Child Psychotherapists
1994-2000 Training in Adult Psychotherapy for Child Psychotherapists, Tavistock Clinic, (M1, Option 3)
2000 Qualified as a Member of the Tavistock Society of Psychotherapists, Adult Division
Research
1971-1972 Masters dissertation on language and communication skills in blind children
1972-1976 Doctoral research on parent-infant communication and early language development in blind children
1976-1977 Post doctoral research into parent infant interaction and early language development in sighted children
1981-1989 As Margaret Lowenfeld Research Fellow I carried out research in the following areas: Social-emotional relationships between same-aged babies.
Mothers’ accounts of experiences of child birth and parenting.
Historical aspects of childcare advice literature, pre- and post World War 2.
The history of child psychotherapy.
The work of Margaret Lowenfeld.
A critical intervention into the epistemological basis of Western psychology
Recent or current research interests include:
1998 An evaluation of group work with adolescent girls
2001 Emotional aspects of language impairment and language delay.
2003- With Hilary Dawson, Linda Dawson, Pamela Bartrum, Francesca Bartlett the contribution of child psychotherapy to multidisciplinary assessmen tof Autistic Spectrum Children and the role of trauma in parents in language difficulties
2003 An evaluation of a Sure Start-CAMHS project for parents and under fours
2004 A qualitative study of the clinical effectiveness of child psychotherapy
2006-2008 With Wendy Hollway and Ann Phoenix, ‘Transition to motherhood , funded by ESRC 2006-8; research consultant
2009- 2011 With Ben Bradley and Jane Selby. British Academy funding
Teaching and Supervision
1972-1976 At the University of Cambridge: Undergraduate supervision in developmental psychology
WEA teaching on early development and on the Development of Personality
1977-1981 At the University of Warwick: Undergraduate teaching in Introduction to Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Abnormal Development, and the Psychology of Language.
Supervision of Masters’ Dissertation
Contributed to Supervision of PhD dissertation.
Examining Masters Dissertations
Examining PhD Dissertations
1981-1989 At the University of Cambridge: Undergraduate supervision in developmental psychology.
Annual lecture course on psychoanalysis for students taking SPS Tripos, 1983-1989
Contributed to PhD Supervision
Examining Masters dissertations
Examining PhD Dissertations
Lecture course on developmental aspects of psychotherapy for Cambridge and East of England Psychoanalytic Forum, c. 1987
1983-1993 Teaching on Observation Course at the Tavistock Clinic (M7): module on Child Development Research
1989-2003 At the Emanuel Miller Centre:
Fortnightly supervision of individual psychotherapy cases of Specialist Registrars in Child Psychiatry, ongoing.
Fortnightly supervision of grade A child psychotherapists in the service, ongoing.
Fortnightly multidisciplinary supervision group on individual work with children.
Weekly in-service supervision of child psychotherapy trainees based at the clinic.
Regular teaching on a course in child psychotherapy within the academic programme for specialist registrars in child psychiatry.
Teaching a course to trainees at the Guild of Psychotherapists, 1993-1994, on developmental aspects of psychotherapy.
Teaching on the Observation Course at the Tavistock Clinic (M7):
Young Child Observation 1993-2001
Infant Observation 1994-1995
Personality Development 1998-ongoing.
Supervision of Masters dissertations within this course
Teaching on the Clinical Doctorate in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, UEL/ Tavistock Clinic. Supervision of two dissertations, 1999-.
Teaching Infant Observation in Cambridge
2003
Visiting teacher to Infant Observation and Personality Development seminars within Infant Observation Course, Sydney, Australia, Summer 2002 .
2002-6 At the Adult Psychotherapy Department, St Clements Hospital, Tower Hamlets:
Supervision of Adult Psychotherapy, honorary psychotherapists and trainees
Total supervision of PhD dissertations and clinical doctorates, fourteen
Some Consultation
1987-1989 At the Child and Family Consultation Service, Cambridge:
Fortnightly consultation to senior charge nurse at the Children’s Assessment Centre
Fortnightly consultation to occupational therapist at the Adolescent Unit
Fortnightly support group for paediatric nurses, Addenbrokes Hospital
1991-1995 At the Emanuel Miller Centre:
Monthly consultation to the Director of the Adolescent Counselling service, Tower Hamlets
1993-1998 Fortnightly, then monthly, consultation to newly established Child Mental Health Team, Tower Hamlets.
1994-1995 Fortnightly support group for Health Visitors
1999 For Social Services: Day course for short-term foster carers on Separation.
2001-2002 For Social Services:
Module on parenting within an assessment package designed for prospective parents of adopted children
2005 Three weekly consultation to Social Services Family assessment centre
2002-5 Within Sure Start/ under fives service:
Multidisciplinary consultation and liaison group.
Inset training event for teachers on introducing children into nursery school
Monthly group for health visitors and allied professionals held at local GP practice
2005 Monthly consultation to staff at Social Services family assessment centre
Multi-agency Liaison
1995- At Emanuel Miller Centre, co-convenor of monthly, multi-agency and multi-disciplinary workshop on Trauma and its effects on children and families.
1996-
Convenor and chair of multi-disciplinary and multi-agency working party on meeting the mental health needs of under fives and their parents. Ongoing.
Membership of Professional Bodies and Societies
Member of the British Psychological Society
Member of the Association of Child Psychotherapists
Member of the British Confederation of Psychotherapists
Member of the Tavistock Society for Psychotherapists, Adult and Child Divisions
Trusteeship
Trustee of the Mary Kitzinger Trust since its inception in 1986. This Charitable Trust exists to promote teaching and research into the needs of visually impaired children, giving particular emphasis to emotional aspects of development and to research which crosses traditional academic boundaries. We have sponsored four International Symposia, two PhD studentships, several other pieces of research and regular, six monthly research seminars.
SOME CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
‘Preverbal communication and early language development in blind children’. Paper presented at International Symposium on Language Acquisition, University of Stanford, USA. April. 1979.
‘Developmental psychology and child rearing practices: some problems with prescriptions’ Paper presented at BPS Developmental Section Annual Conference, Durham, September, 1982
‘Observations of aggression in same-aged babies’ Paper presented at World Association for Infant Mental Health, Cannes, France, April 1983
‘Conflict and reparation between peers and parents: observations of infants from 6 months to 2 years’. Paper presented at Fourth Biennial Conference on Infant Studies, New York, USA, April, 1984
‘Functions of imitation between same-aged infants through the first two years’. Paper presented at
BPS Developmental Section Conference, September, 1984
‘Placing culture in children’s play’. Paper presented at Margaret Lowenfeld Annual Symposium, Cambridge, England, November, 1985
‘Developments in cooperation and caring behaviour through the first two years’. Paper presented at the British Psychological Society Developmental Section Annual Conference, Exeter, September, 1986
‘Breaking links and the aesthetic conflict: work with an obsessional adolescent girl’. Paper presented at the Biennial Tavistock-Rome Conference, London, September, 1988
‘Developmental psychology and psychoanalysis: exploring knowledge and uncertainty in infant development’. Paper presented at Dal Nascere al Divenire Nella Realta e Nella Fantasia, Turin, March 1990.
‘Getting to know the self and others: babies interactions with other babies. Paper presented at 1Vth European Conference on Developmental Psychology, Stirling, Scotland, August, 1990.
‘Theories of mind and the communication by-pass in autistic, borderline and non-communicating children’. Paper presented at ACP Annual Conference, London, March, 1993.
‘Psychic links and traumatic events: some implications of premature birth’. Paper presented at the Biennial Tavistock Rome Conference, London, September, 1996
‘How do we know what babies know?’ Paper presented at East London Study Day on Infant Observation, What Babies Can Tell Us, Newham, February 2002.
‘Transference and countertransference in the psychotherapy assessment of looked after children’. Paper presented at ACP Annual Conference, London, March, 2002.
‘What’s out there? A community based service for parents and their under fives’. Paper presented at international conference at the Tavistock Centre, New Horizons in Work with Under Fives’, March 2004
Above paper revised and presented at re-run of above conference, December 2004
‘Revisiting “What works for Whom?” A Qualitative Study of the Clinical Effectiveness of Child Psychotherapy”, ACP Conference, London, May 2004.
‘Taking services for under fives into ethnically diverse communities’. Paper presented at NFPI conference Working with Family Relationships, London, June 2005.
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Henriques J., Hollway W., Urwin C., Venn C., and Walkerdine V., 1984 Changing the Subject: Psychology, Social regulation and Social Change, London: Methuen
Steedman C., Urwin C., and Walkerdine V., (Eds) 1985 Language, gender and Childhood. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
Urwin C., and Hood-Williams J., (Eds) 1988 Child Psychotherapy, War and the Normal Child: Selected Papers of Margaret Lowenfeld. London: Free Associations Books.
Henriques J., Hollway W., Urwin C., Venn C., and Walkerdine V., Changing the Subject: Psychology, Social regulation and Social Change, London: Routledge. Reissued with new forward 1998
Midgley, N., Anderson, J., Grainger, E. Nesic, T. and Urwin (2009) Child Psychotherapy and Research: New Approaches, Emergent Findings. London, Routledge.
C.Urwin and J.Sternberg (2012) Infant Observation and Research: Emotional processes in everyday lives. London: Routledge
Urwin C. Psychotherapy and Infancy: Models of Development and Developing Minds London: MacMillan. Series Editor Ann Scott. Unpublished.
Journal articles and book chapters
Urwin, C. and Sokolow, A. (1974) ‘A play-mobile for blind infants’. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology.
Urwin, C. (1977) ‘“I’m coming to get you: Ready! Steady! Go!” The development of communication between blind infants and his parents’. In G. Butterworth (Ed) The Child’s Representation of the World. New York and London: Plenum Press.
Urwin, C. (1978) ‘The development of communication between blind infants and their parents’. In A. Lock (Ed) Action, Gesture and Symbol: the Emergence of Language. London: Academic Press.
Urwin, C. (1978) ‘Early language development in blind children’. British Psychological Society Occasional Papers Vol. 11, No.2.
Urwin, C. (1979) ‘Preverbal communication and early language development in blind children. In Stanford Papers and Reports in Child Language No. 17, 119-127.
Urwin, C. (1982) ‘The contribution of non-visual systems to knowing oneself’ In M. Beveridge (Ed) Children Thinking Through Language. London: Arnold.
Urwin, C. (1983) ‘Dialogue and cognitive development in the early development of blind children’. In A.E.Mills (Ed) Language Acquisition in Blind Children. London: Croom Helm.
Urwin, C. (1984) ‘Language for absent things: learning from visually impaired children’. Topics in Language Disorders, 4, 24-37
Urwin, C. (1984) ‘Communication in infancy and the emergence of language in blind children’. In R. Schiefelbusch and J.Pickar (Eds) The Acquisition of Communicative Competence. Baltimore: University Park Press.
Urwin, C. (1984) ‘Power relations in the emergence of language’. In J.Henriques, W.Hollway, C.Urwin, C.Venn and V.Walkerdine Changing the Subject: Psychology, Social regulation and Social Change. 264-322, London: Methuen.
Urwin, C. (1985) ‘Constructing motherhood: the persuasion of normal development’. In C. Steedman, C.Urwin and V.Walkerdine Language, Gender and Childhood. London: Routledge.
Urwin, C. (1986) ‘Psychoanalysis and developmental psychology: splitting the difference.’ In M.Richards and P. Light (Eds) Children of Social Worlds. Cambridge: Polity Press.
Urwin, C. (1989) ‘Linking emotion and thinking in infant development: a psychoanalytic perspective.’ In G. Bremner and A. Slater, (Eds) Infant Development London: Erlbaum.
Urwin, C. (1990) ‘Developmental psychology and psychoanalysis: exploring knowledge and uncertainty in infant development’. Published in conference proceedings of ‘Dal Nascere al Divenire Nella Realta e Nella Fantasia’, Turin, March 1990.
Urwin, C. (1991) ‘Child psychotherapy in historical context: an introduction to the work of Margaret Lowenfeld’. Free Associations, 21, 114-125.
Urwin, C. and Sharland, E. (1992) ‘From bodies and minds in infant care: advice to parents in interwar Britain’. In R. Cooter (Ed) In the Name of the Child: Health and Welfare 1880-1940, London: Routledge.
Urwin, C. (1993) ‘Turtle Power: illusion and imagination in children’s play. In C.Bazalgette and D,Buckingham (Eds) In Front of the Children. London: British Film Institute.
Urwin, C. (1998) ‘Psychic links and traumatic events: some implications of premature birth’. Journal of Child Psychotherapy, Vol. 24, No. 1 pp 61-84.
Urwin, C. (2001) ‘A psychoanalytic approach to language delay: when ‘autistic’ isn’t necessarily autism’ Journal of Child Psychotherapy, Vol. 28 No.1, 73-93.
Urwin, C. (2001) ‘Getting to know the self and others: babies’ interactions with other babies. International Journal of Infant Observation Vol. 4, No. 1 pp. 13-28.
Urwin, C. (2001) ‘ “Poor girl”: a case of active psychosis’: clinical commentary. European Journal of Psychotherapy, Counselling and Health Vol. 4, No. 2 pp 195-200.
Urwin, C. (2003) ‘Breaking Ground, Hitting Ground: A Sure Start Rapid Response Service for Parents and their Under Fours’, Journal of Child Psychotherapy, Vol 29, No 3, pp 375-392.
Arnold, K. and Urwin, C. (2004) ‘Infant Observation and Developmental Psychology’, guest editors of special edition of Infant Observation: International Journal of Infant Observation and Its Applications Vol.7 No. 2/3.
Urwin C. (2005) ‘Breaking Ground, Hitting Ground: A Sure Start Rapid Response Service for Parents and their Under Fours’ in J.Launer, S.Blake, and D. Daws (eds) Reflecting on Reality: Psychotherapists at Work in Primary Care, London, Karnac, 111-131.
Urwin, C. and Evans, N. (2005) ‘Leaving home: an evaluation of group work with adolescent girls.’ In S. Reid (Ed) A Volume on group work to be published in the Tavistock Series.
Urwin, C. (2006) ‘Notes on unintegration and disintegration from historical and developmental pespectives’ Journal of Child Psychotherapy Vol. 32, No. 2, 193-213.
Urwin, c. (2006) ‘Report on “A conversation about unintegration, disintegration and integration” with papers by Anne Alvarez and Edna O’Shaugnessy, chaired by Margot Waddell’. Journal of Child Psychotherapy Vol. 32, No. 2, 214-216
Urwin, C. (2006) ‘Exploring the unexpected: transference phenomena in a research setting’ Journal of Infant Observation Vol. 9, No. 2, 165-177.
Urwin, C. (2007) ‘Revisiting “What works for whom”: a qualitative method for evaluating clinical effectiveness in child psychotherapy. Journal of Child Psychotherapy Vol. 33, No. 2, 134-160
Urwin, C. DATE ‘Transference and countertransference in the psychotherapeutic assessment of looked after children. Paper to be submitted to Journal of Child Psychotherapy.
Urwin, C. (2007) ‘Doing infant observation differently? Researching the formation of mothering identities in an inner London Borough’. International Journal of Infant Observation and its Applications 2007 10 (3) 239-252.
Urwin, C. (2007) ‘Introduction’. International Journal of Infant Observation and its Applications special issue, ed C. Urwin. Becoming a Mother: Changing Identities. Infant Observation in a Research Project. vol. 10 (3) 231-234.
Urwin, C. (2008) ‘Where the Wild Things Are’: behaviour problems in under fives boys’ in E. Bradley and L. Emanuel (eds) Under fives counselling: the Tavistock model London, Karnac, Tavistock Series.
Urwin, C. (2009) A qualitative framework for evaluating the clinical effectiveness of child psychotherapy: The Hopes and Expectations for Treatment Approach (HETA). In N Midgley, J. Anderson, E. Grainger, T. Nesic-Vuckovic, and C.Urwin (2009) Child Psychotherapy and Research: New Approaches, Emergent Findings. London, Routledge. See also 2007
Urwin C. (2009) ‘Separation and changing identity in becoming a mother’ in S. Day Slater, D.W. Jones, H. Price and C. Yates Emotion: New Psychosocial Perspectives London: Palgrave.
Urwin, C. (2010) How do we watch a film? Re-viewing ‘video replay’ in the light of affective processes. Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society 15, 393-403.
Urwin, C. (2011) Promoting communication in non-speaking children: In S. Maiello (ed) Gioco e Linguaggio Rome: Astrolabio.
Urwin, C. (2011) Infant observation meets social science. Infant Observation: International Journal of Infant Observation and its Applications. Vol 14, Issue 3, 341-344
Urwin, C. (2011) Emotional life of Autistic Spectrum Children. What do we hope for from child psychotherapy? Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Special Edition on Autism Vol 25, Issue 3, pp 245-261
Bradley, B., Selby, J. and Urwin, C. (2012) Group life in babies: opening up perceptions and possibilities. In C.Urwin and J.Sternberg (2012) Infant Observation and Research: Emotional processes in everyday lives. London: Routledge.
Urwin, C. (2012) 'Using surprise in observing cultural difference'. In C. Urwin and J. Sternberg (2012) Infant Observation and Research: Emotional Processes in Lives. London: Routledge.
Urwin, C., Hauge, M-I., Hollway, W., Haavind, H. (2013) ‘Becoming a Mother through Culture’. Qualitative Inquiry 19(6) 470-479.
Book reviews and review articles
Urwin, C. (1985) Review of D.Riley, War in the Nursery, London: Virago, 1983. Feminist Review 19, 95-100.
Urwin, C. (1985) Review of P.S. Penfold and G.A. Walker, Women and the Psychiatric Paradox, Milton Keynes: Open University Press, 1984. Sociology of Health and Illness Vol. 7 No. 3, 455-456.
Urwin, C. (1986) Review of H.R.Schaffer, The Child’s Entry into a Social World, London: Academic Press 1985. British Journal of Developmental Psychology Vol.4 No. 1, 134-138
Urwin, C. (1986) Review of J. Rose The Case of Peter Pan or the Impossibility of Children’s Fiction. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. M/F Vol.11 No.12, 95-98
Urwin, C. (1986) Review article on B.Landau and L.Gleitman, Language and Experience: Evidence from the Blind Child, Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 1985. Child Language Teaching and Therapy, Vol. 3, No. 1, 101-106.
Urwin, C. (1991) Review of J. Ryce-Menuhin, The Self in Early Childhood, London: Free Association Books, 1988. Free Associations, 21, 114-125.
Urwin, C. (1996) Review of A. Piontelli, From Foetus to Child, London: Routledge, 1992. Winnicott Studies, 11, 86-88.
Urwin, C. (1996) Review of H. Rey Universals of Psychoanalysis in the Treatment of Psychotic and Borderline States, London: Free Association Books, 1994. Tavistock and Portman Gazette, Spring pp. 59-61.
Urwin, C. (1998) Review of A. Sroufe Emotional Development: the Organisation of Emotional Life in the Early Years, Cambridge: University Press, 1987. Journal of Child Psychotherapy, Vol. 24 No. 2 pp. 327-340.
Urwin, C. (1999) Review article on J. Rich Harris The Nurture Assumption. London: Bloomsbury, 1999 and J. Kagan Three Seductive Ideas, Harvard: University Press, 1998. Times Literary Supplement, July 30th, 4-5.
Urwin, C. (2000) Review of A. Hurry (Ed) Psychoanalysis and Developmental Theory, London: Karnac, (1998). Journal of Child Psychotherapy, Vol. 26 No. 1 pp. 124-128.
Urwin, C. (2000) Review of G. Kohon (Ed) The Dead Mother: the Work of Andre Green, London: Routledge, (1999). Psychodynamic Counselling Vol. 6 No. 4 pp. 542-545.
Urwin, C. (2001) Review of J. Mitchell, Madmen and Medusas: Reclaiming hysteria and the Effects of Sibling relations on the Human Condition, London: Allen Lane, 2000. International Journal of Critical Psychology 3, 185-191.
Urwin, C. (2002) Review article on J. Sully Studies of Childhood, 1895, reprinted London: Free Associations, 1999, and R.Keynes Annie’s Box, London: Fourth Estate, 2001. International Journal of Infant Observation Vol. 5, No. 1, 145-156.
Urwin, (2005) Review of Marianne Leuzinger-Bohlenger and Mary Target (eds) Outcomes of Psychoanalytic Treatment: Perspectives for Therapists and Researchers and of Susan McPherson, Phil Richardson and Penny Leroux (eds) Clinical Effectiveness in Psychotherapy and Mental Health: Strategies and Resources for Effective Clinical Governance. Journal of Child Psychotherapy Vol. 31 No. 1, 129-136.