This presentation will describe the therapeutic playgroup for refugees and asylum-seeking parents, their babies and toddlers that has been running since 2021. Two short cases will be presented to illustrate the psychoanalytic thinking behind the clinical interventions.

Biographical details of presenters:

Fatima Martinez del Solar is a Psychoanalyst and Fellow British Psychoanalytic Society. Fatima facilitated a Parent-toddler group at the Anna Freud Centre for some years before establishing and running a therapeutic parent, baby and toddler group in Peckham which ran for 15 years. She currently works in Private Practice and at the Centre for Psychoanalysis and its Applications at 10 Windsor Walk in London. Fatima is the Clinical Lead of the therapeutic playgroup project and offers weekly clinical supervision to staff at 10 Windsor Walk.

Inge-Martine Pretorius, PhD (Microbiology) and DPsych (Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy), qualified as a Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist at the Anna Freud Centre (AFC) in London. She is a Visiting Professor at Vienna University and a Lecturer at University College London. For over 20 years she worked at the Anna Freud Centre; as Clinical Lead of the Parent-Toddler service, facilitating a therapeutic Parent-Toddler Group and Observation Seminars; organising and teaching the AFC-UCL MSc Psychoanalytic Perspectives of Child Development Course and curating Anna Freud’s Hampstead War Nursery Archives. She currently works in Private Practice and for the National Health Service, running a Child Psychotherapy Service in a nursery school in a deprived area of London. She has published in the field of molecular genetics and psychoanalysis. Inge is the Research Consultant and a clinical supervisor of the therapeutic playgroup at 10 Windsor Walk.

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