
Deputy Director of the Psychoanalysis Unit, University College London; Senior Research Fellow, Anna Freud. Primary supervisor for the Psychoanalysis Unit PhD programme. Interested in mentalizing, epistemic trust, attachment theory and developmental psychopathology. Also interested in the wider social and politics implications of mentalizing and the theory of epistemic trust, as well as studies on cultural history and psychoanalysis.
Recent publications include ‘What we have changed our minds about: Part 1. Borderline personality disorder as a limitation of resilience,’ ‘What we have changed our minds about: Part 2. Borderline personality disorder, epistemic trust and the developmental significance of social communication’ in Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation.
She is series co-editor, with Dr Liz Allison, of the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families/Routledge Best Practice Series.
Dr Campbell was educated at Cambridge, LSE and SOAS. She has a PhD in History and has published a book on the history of eugenic thought, on the basis of her doctoral research. She is particularly interested in pursuing the interdisciplinary implications of recent theoretical developments in the area of epistemic trust, culture and psychopathology.