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Dr Jessica Yakeley
Chair, Medical Psychotherapy Faculty
Jessica Yakeley is a Consultant Psychiatrist in Forensic Psychotherapy and Director of the Portman Clinic, and Director of Medical Education, Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust.
She is also a Fellow of the British Psychoanalytic Society. Her particular fields of interest and research include antisocial personality disorder, violence, paraphilias, risk, and psychodynamic methods of teaching about the doctor patient relationship.
She has published numerous peer-reviewed papers and chapters, and six books including Working with Violence: A Contemporary Psychoanalytic Approach, The Oxford Specialist Handbook of Medical Psychotherapy, and Learning About Emotions in Illness.