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Maria Fischer is a Research Assistant at the Anna Freud Centre for Children and Families and UCL. She started her role in the Psychoanalysis Unit in 2023 and primarily works on data from the MOAM trial. The Mentalizing for Offending Adult Males (MOAM) study is a national randomised controlled trial that investigates the effectiveness of Mentalization Based Therapy (MBT) for male offenders with an antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) diagnosis. Her current focus is on managing the MOAM participants’ offending data. In addition, Maria occasionally contributes to other projects within the unit, including SUMMIT (an evaluation of group interpersonal therapy for women with postnatal depression), i-THRIVE (evaluating the implementation of the THRIVE framework in CAMHS) and Safer London (a qualitative study evaluating support services for those who lost a loved one in an act of violence). Maria is also involved in data collection for an additional study outside the Psychoanalysis Unit called Probing Social Exchange, which aims to investigate neural and behavioural signatures of borderline personality disorder and antisocial personality disorder during social processes. Maria completed her Bsc in Psychology from the University of Bath in 2019 and her Msc in Psychoanalytic Developmental Psychology in 2020.
How to contact Maria Dos Santos Fischer
Psychoanalysis Unit
Research Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology
University College London
Gower StreetLondon
WC1E 6BT