Mary Hepworth is a Professor of Psychoanalysis at University Collge London. After training in clinical psychology at Oxford, she worked in public health settings for ten years, and trained as a psychoanalyst. Her academic career has been at University College London (UCL), teaching psychology and psychoanalytic theory, and researching in adult and child attachment, treatment outcomes across therapies, and the blending of quantitative and qualitative research methods, especially analysis of interview narratives. She also worked for several years at the Anna Freud Centre which is affiliated with UCL and hosted some of the research and treatment developments, including DIT; she served as Professional Director there 2003-13. In parallel, she has also maintained a clinical practice in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis.
Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy (DIT) is a brief psychodynamic psychotherapy developed for the treatment of mood disorders. It is now offered in the UK in NHS for the treatment of depression and has... (more)