Joan Haliburn, MD is a child, adolescent, adult and family psychiatrist and psychotherapist, a Fellow of the Royal Australian & New Zealand College of Psychiatrists, a clinical senior lecturer, University of Sydney, in private practice and on faculty of the Complex Trauma Unit, Western Sydney health District, which is a service delivery, teaching and training unit of Westmead Hospital She has published widely, and her book “An integrated approach to short term dynamic interpersonal psychotherapy – a clinician guide” is soon to be published by Karnac, London. She is on the board of directors, ISSTD.