Donna Rumsey
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Email
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Location
Colchester Campus
Profile
- Childhood sexual abuse
- Object relations - early developmental functioning
- Gender
- Severe and enduring mental health challenges
- PTSD and related trauma
Biography
Donna is a UKCP registered psychoanalytic psychotherapist who gained a Master of Clinical Science degree in psychoanalytic psychotherapy with the University of Kent at Canterbury. She has had twenty-five years of experience in the field of psychological therapies, spending the last fifteen years in NHS Secondary Care services working with adults with complex, severe and enduring mental health difficulties. In this setting she has been working with adults, both individually and as a facilitator of a psychoanalytic group. She is currently working full time in South Wales NHS Adult services as well as having a private practice in Southwest Wales. Eight years ago, Donna qualified in Integrative Supervision with MIND for groups and individuals and is currently supervising a group of practitioners within her NHS practice. Her research is using clinical material from psychoanalytic psychotherapy with adults who have experienced childhood sexual abuse looking at specific functioning and how this can be presented within the transference and worked with in the countertransference.
Qualifications
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BA Creative Arts (Combined Studies) Manchester Metropolitan University (1981)
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PGCE English & Drama Institute of Education, University of London (1993)
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PgDip Psychotherapy Studies University of Kent at Canterbury (2000)
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MClin Sci Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy University of Kent at Canterbury (2009)
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Dip Integrative Supervision MIND, North Kent (2017)
Research and professional activities
Thesis
Defensive ways of functioning in the clinical setting of adult patients who have experienced childhood sexual abuse.
The functioning of these patients can manifest in the transference and can be thought about and considered in relation to the therapist’s countertransference. I am particularly interested in how the phenomena of what Winnicott terms as the ‘False Self,’ manifests in the room and how it can serve as a defence and survival mechanism. . I pose that a detailed examination of this presentation has the potential for the therapist to modify and develop their practice.
Supervisor: Dr Deborah Wright
