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Alison Ryan
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Email
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Location
Colchester Campus
Profile
- Psychoanalytic Theory
- Parents & Babies research
- Siblings
- Attachment Theory
- Students & Therapy
Biography
Researcher & Clinician. I am a member of the Bowlby Centre and taught psychoanalytic theory and observation for over 10 years at the Anna Freud Centre / University College London. In my clinical practice I work with professionals and parents with a particular interest in long fertility journeys to becoming a parent and the impact on subsequent attachment patterns with their babies. Head of Education and Training at Wilfrids House Clinic where I work with volunteers on a clinical training and have clients particularly those training to become junior doctors or completing their PhDs.
Qualifications
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MA(Hons) University of Cambridge (1991)
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MA (Hons) University of Oxford (2004)
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MSc with Distinction University College London (2008)
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FHEA (2018)
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FRSA (2026)
Research and professional activities
Thesis
Hardwon Motherhood
A research project of the experience of therapists working with mothers who have conceived through assisted conception and whether theoretical assumptions of the psychic process of becoming a mother.