SURVIVING AS A PSYCHOTHERAPIST IN THE SOUTH AFRICAN CONTEXT

Beverley Tydeman grew up in South Africa where she had trained as a teacher psychologist and also as a social worker. She has worked in education, social care and health. She taught child and family mental health at Rhodes University before emigrating to the UK. She trained at the Tavistock Clinic first as a child psychotherapist and then as a couples therapist and worked at the Tavistock and the Marlborough family service/Westminster CAMHS. She was chair of the ACP (Association of Child Psychotherapists) between 2008 and 2011 and worked on various committees for the professional body. After retiring from the NHS she spent a few years back in South Africa teaching various courses for the IPCP - Institute of psychoanalytic child psychotherapy. She is now in the process of retiring back in London, but is continuing her work for the IPCP.