Creating a ‘psychological nest’ for vulnerable infants and children: an interview with Annette Mendelsohn

Abstract

This is an edited version of a recent interview with Annette Mendelsohn, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist at the Royal Free Hospital, London, UK. It aims to make available in published form Mendelsohn's thinking and approach in relation to her work with traumatised children in a hospital setting. Mendelsohn also discusses her work in a neonatal intensive care setting and the way in which approaches to psychosocial care in the hospital setting have changed over the course of her professional life.

Keywords:

• Psychological nesting
• trauma
• work in hospitals
• neonatal intensive care
• siblings