Margaret Rustin is a consultant child and adolescent psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic, London, where she has been Head of Child Psychotherapy since 1986. She has pioneered and supported the extension of training in psychoanalytic observational approaches to training across the United Kingdom and in a number of other countries. She has coauthored, with Michael Rustin, "Narratives of Love and Loss" and "Mirror to Nature", and has co-edited "Closely Observed Infants", as well as "Psychotic States in Children" and "Assessment in Psychotherapy".