Autor: Jane Ridley

Michael Crowe, DM, FRCPsych is a consultant psychiatrist at the South London and Maudsley NHS Trust, where he heads a unit for patients with repeated self-harm, as well as running specialized clinics for couple relationship and sexual therapy and the associated MSc/Diploma training courses. He is a founder member of the Institute of Family Therapy; he is also a founder member and past Chairman of the British Association for Sexual and Relationship Therapy and is a member of the Governing Board of the UK Council for Psychotherapy. Jane Ridley, BA, PQSW trained originally in Social Work at the London School of Economics and at the University of Newcastle and as a mature student at the Institute of Psychiatry. She began work with Michael Crowe in 1983 at the Marital and Sexual Therapy Clinics and was instrumental in developing the Course in Relationship and Sexual Therapy which now offers both an MSc and Diploma. She has developed her work within Supervision and runs training courses for advanced therapists. She has also been Chair of the Family, Marital and Sexual Section of UKCP and a member of the Governing Board of the UKCP.