Geoff BrownGeoff Brown began working in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in the 1980s, taking a special interest in the assessment and treatment of young people with mental health problems arising in the context of childhood abuse trauma. Initially influenced bythe ideas of Donald Winnicott, he trained as a psychoanalyst (Jungian) before becoming Consultant in Adolescent Psychiatry at Simmons House, an adolescent inpatient unit linked to University College Hospital, London. In 1995 he moved to St Andrew's Hospital, Northampton and took a leading role in the development of the Adolescent Service there, applying his experience of treating young people in a therapeutic milieu to the care and treatment of adolescents in a secure setting. For the past seven years he has worked in a small team providing an in-reach mental health service at a local authority secure children's home. Read More Read Less