Sheila ThompsonSheila Thompson qualified as a psychiatric social worker in 1955 and subsequently worked at Great Ormond Street, at the Portman Clinic and the Newnham Community Mental Health Service. She has lived in East Africa working with refugees and in New Yorkwhere she pursued an interest in family therapy and in the care of patients with terminal cancer. She is now a freelance teacher and writer on group work, bereavement, and terminal care. She has been a member of the Group Analytic Society since 1970 and she is a founding member of the Large Group Section. She is the co-author of 'The Group Process as a Helping Technique' (1970) with Dr. J. H. Kahn, and 'The Group Process and Family Therapy' (1998). She also contributed to 'The Evolution of Group Analysis', edited by M. Pines. Read More Read Less