Jessica Yakeley is a Consultant Psychiatrist in Forensic Psychotherapy and Director of the Portman Clinic, Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust. She is also a Training Analyst of the British Psychoanalytic Society. Her fields of interest and research include antisocial personality disorder, violence, paraphilias, risk, and psychodynamic methods of teaching about the doctor patient relationship. She has published many peer-reviewed papers and chapters, and seven books including Working with Violence: A Contemporary Psychoanalytic Approach, The Oxford Specialist Handbook of Medical Psychotherapy, and Learning About Emotions in Illness.