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DETAILS ABOUT CONTRIBUTORS
Jacques China (speaker) received his clinical training in psychoanalysis at The Guild of Psychotherapists, London. His background was in academic and research psychology at University College, London. He designed and ran, as course leader, an MA programme in clinical psychoanalysis at the University of Hertfordshire. His clinical work has been both within the National Health Service and in private practice. He has a keen interest in research and the scientific validation of psychoanalysis, particularly in relation to possible links with attachment theory. He has been trained to administer the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI). He was one of the founding members of The College of Psychoanalysts – UK and The Academy of Psychoanalysis (formerly known as The College of Psychoanalysis), and their first President.
Mary Clark-Glass (speaker) was appointed a lay member of the HPC in 2003. She sits on the Finance & Resources Committee, on the Conduct and Competence Committee, and is currently a lay member of the Professional Liaison Group (PLG) for Psychotherapists and Counsellors, having previously chaired the PLG on Standards of Proficiency. She also chairs Fitness to Practice cases for the GMC and GDC, having previously served on the GMC Council from 1999-2003. From 2004-2007 she was a non-executive member of the Royal Belfast Hospitals Trust Board. Her professional life includes having been a lecturer in law in Belfast from 1974 until 1980. In 1975 she was one of the founders of the Women’s Rights Movement in Northern Ireland, and served on the National Consumer Council and the Economic and Social Committee of the EU in the late 70’s and early 80’s. In 1984 she was appointed chair and chief executive of the Equal Opportunities Commission for N. Ireland. In this time, she served as a Human Rights Commissioner in N. Ireland, and for 25 years was closely involved with the charity Victim Support at local and national level. In 1990 she was appointed a CBE for services to equality in N. Ireland. She also served as a member of the N.I. Commission for Racial Equality. Between 1992 and 1997 she was heavily involved in political negotiations with other N.I. political parties and the British and Irish governments, but retired from all political activity after the signing of the Good Friday agreement.