Maria Papadima is a psychologist, with an interest in psychoanalysis and feminism. She has completed a PhD at the University of East London looking at the recently increasing theoretical interest in trauma in modern British psychoanalysis. She has an interest in clinical psychoanalytic work with children and adolescents, and currently works with families and adolescents at two London charities. She also teaches on the trauma module at the MSc in theoretical psychoanalytic studies, UCL, and supervises students at that same course for the last years. She can be reached at maria.papadima@yahoo.com, or through the UCL psychoanalysis unit.