Dr. Maggie Turp is a psychodynamic psychotherapist and supervisor in private practice and a chartered psychologist. Her academic career has included lectureships at the University of Reading and at Birkbeck College, London. Since retiring from mainstream academic life, she has been a visiting lecturer at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust.

For the past decade, Maggie's educational work has included the provision of CPD training workshops for regionally based associations of counsellors and psychotherapists. These reflect her longstanding interest in the emergence of psychological distress in the physical realm and the enduring nature of early, body-centred modes of relating. The clinical themes addressed in the workshops include self-harm, depression, psychosomatic illness, and the aftermath of trauma. A more recent area of interest concerns integrity and fraudulence as experienced in the consulting room and work in progress includes writing and organising workshops around these themes.

Maggie is a member of the Editorial Boards of the journals 'Psychodynamic Practice' and 'Infant Observation' Her publications include several journal papers and two books, 'Psychosomatic Health: the body and the word' (2001 Palgrave) and 'Hidden Self-Harm: narratives from psychotherapy' (2003 Jessica Kingsley). She welcomes correspondence at maggieturp@googlemail.com