Let's Talk Paraphilias

Dr. Jessica Yakeley MB BChir MRCP FRCPsych is a Consultant Psychiatrist in Forensic Psychotherapy. She is 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 and Editor of the journal Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy.

She has a longstanding interest in medical education and has published the results of research into psychodynamic methods of teaching medical students about the doctor-patient relationship.

She teaches and lectures widely, and has published many papers and chapters on medical education, risk assessment, MAPPA, prison health, antisocial personality disorder, and paraphilias. She is the author of Working with Violence: A Contemporary Psychoanalytic Approach (Palgrave MacMillan, 2010), and has edited four other books.

She is currently leading the national delivery of services for a multi-site randomized controlled trial of mentalization-based treatment for antisocial personality disorder as part of the Offender Personality Disorder Pathways Strategy commissioned by the Ministry of Justice and NHS England.
She is Vice-Chair of the Royal College of Psychiatrists Psychotherapy Faculty, and Research Lead for the British Psychoanalytic Council.

Assessing and Managing Problematic Sexual Interests: A Practitioner's Guide (Issues in Forensic Psychology)
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