Francesca Hume

Francesca first trained as a clinical psychologist before going to Nicaragua (Central America) in the early 90’s where she and her husband researched and published findings on the traumatic impact of the war on combatants from both sides of the conflict. Her interest in the long term impact of adversity has remained but has acquired a more psychological emphasis: in more recent years she ran a service offering psychotherapeutic treatment to adults who as children had grown up in care homes in which they were severely abused. While working at the Henderson Therapeutic Community she became interested in personality disorder, severe psychopathology and group therapy.
She then specialised as a forensic clinical psychologist; later she moved to the Tavistock Clinic, while training as a psychoanalyst at the Institute of Psychoanalysis. She is now Head of Adult Psychology and Course Director for the Adult Psychotherapy Training at the Tavistock Centre. She works with patients analytically in private practice and also sees patients for individual and group psychotherapy at the Tavistock Clinic.