Lesley Caldwell

Lesley Caldwell is an Honorary Reader in the Psychoanalysis Unit at UCL. She is a psychoanalyst of the BPA, a member of the BAP, and a guest member of the BPAS, in private practice in London. She is the Chair of Trustees of the Winnicott Trust. She has been an editor for the Winnicott Trust since 2002 and, with Angela Joyce published Reading Winnicott for the New Library teaching series( 2011). For the Winnicott Studies monograph series (Karnac & Squiggle Foundation, 2000-2008) she was editor of Art, Creativity, Living (2000), The Elusive Child (2003), Sex and Sexuality: Winnicottian Perspectives (2005) and Winnicott and the Psychoanalytic Tradition (2007).

She  established  the  Psychoanalysis Unit's Interdisciplinary seminar series to explore interfaculty links between the Psychoanalysis Unit and other disciplines and schools. She has a long standing interest in psychoanalysis and the arts.

She teaches and supervises on  the MSc in Theoretical Psychoanalytic Studies and the Doctoral Programme in the Psychoanalysis Unit, and for various trainings. She has been external examinar for the Tavistock Observational Studies MA and the MA in Infant Mental Health.

Dr Caldwell is also Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Italian department at UCL where she was joint organizer (with Dorigen Caldwell of Birkbeck) of the three year research seminar Rome, the growth of the city from the return of the Popes to the Present, and co-editor of Rome: Encounters between Past and Present (Ashgate, 2011). She continues to co-organize  the lecture series, On Rome, held termly. She has written extensively on the Italian family, the topic of her book Italian Family Matters (Macmillan,1991), on Italian cinema, and on the city of Rome. She is currently researching a book on modern Rome and furthering an interest in the development and practice of psychoanalysis in Italy.

Dr Caldwell coordinated the Italian strand of the AHRC funded project Psychoanalysis and the Humanities, located at the Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, University of London, directed by Professor Naomi Segal. The results of this  appeared in Italian and Psychoanalysis, a special issue of the Journal Institute Germanic and Romance Studies (2011) edited with Francesco Capello,  which included articles by psychoanalysts and academics. She taught and supervised on the  Institute's MA in Cultural Memory from its inception in the nineties till 2008.

Related links

Interdisciplinary seminar series
MSc in Theoretical Psychoanalytic Studies
MPhil/PhD In Psychoanalytic Studies

How to contact Lesley Caldwell

Psychoanalysis Unit
Research Department of Clinical, Educational
and Health Psychology
University College London
Gower Street
London WC1E 6BT
l.caldwell@ucl.ac.uk