Margaret Boyle Spelman is a registered clinical psychologist, a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and an organizational psychologist. She has worked for three decades as a clinical psychologist in the Irish Health Services with particular interest in the areas of early intervention, parenting, and learning disability. She has been in private practice as a psychologist and psychotherapist since 1998. Margaret is an Executive Member of the Irish Forum for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and a Board Director for the Irish Council for Psychotherapy and Vice-Chairperson for the Psychoanalytic Section of