Maggie Mills studied Jurisprudence at Oxford, trained at the Royal Free Hospital in London and then worked as a Consultant Clinical Psychologist in the NHS. She is now retired and works in private practice. She qualified as a psychoanalyst and is Professor of Developmental Psychology at the University of Syracuse. She helped to found a psychotherapy service in Brixton for women from ethnic minorities, and also worked for many years with Newpin. She publishes on maternal depression, domestic violence, parent-child relationships and psychotherapeutic change.