Ms Caroline Garland
Public: Camden
Elected November 2006. Term ends October 2009

Experience

• Studies of social development in chimpanzees, and observation of the behaviour of new-born infants at the Behaviour Development Research Unit of St. Mary's Hospital
• Once her own children were in primary school, she qualified as a teacher and taught in London primary schools, gaining experience on the way to becoming a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst
• Currently works in private practice as well as part-time in the adult department of the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust
• She taught group psychotherapy at the Maudsley Hospital from 1983 - 1997
• She worked in the adult department of the Tavistock & Portman NHS Foundation Trust as a clinician, teacher and writer for twenty years. Her primary interests in the Clinic included: the long-term impact of trauma on the personality; and the dynamics of group functioning. She has written, taught and lectured both nationally and internationally on both topics
• Has consulted to many organisations in trouble and situations of conflict at home and abroad
• 1987 founded the Tavistock's Trauma Unit, which now receives referrals from across the country, and whose members have recently worked with organisations traumatised by 7/7
• Currently she is engaged in the long-term Tavistock Outcome Study of treament-resistant depression as a clinician and writer
• Her many publications include: "Understanding Trauma" (2nd Edition, 2002), published by Karnac; and, as a member of the Oxford Pre-School Research Group, she published her research in the book "Children in Day Nurseries"
• She has two grown-up sons

Qualifications

• BA (Hons) English Literature, Cambridge University
• Fellow of the British Psychoanalytic Society