Dr Sebastian Kraemer
After a first degree in philosophy, Sebastian Kraemer qualified in medicine in 1970. He trained in paediatrics in Glasgow, Manchester and London, then in psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital and the Tavistock Clinic, London.
From 1980 he was a consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist at the Tavistock Clinic (until 2003) and in the Paediatric department at the Whittington Hospital London (until 2015).
He is an honorary consultant at the Tavistock & Portman NHS Trust and continues to write, teach and work with staff in NHS and children's services, and as one of a team of family therapists in a GP practice.
Contact
E-mail: kraemer@doctors.org.uk
Mental Health in Paediatrics
Who will have my tummy ache if I give it up?
Family Systems Medicine 1983; 1: 51-59 doi:10.1037/h0089641
‘The body goes mad’: Liaison Psychiatry in Sickle Cell Disease
in A Erskine & D Judd (eds), The Imaginative Body: Psychodynamic Therapy in Health Care 1994
(with Annie Souter, first author) Child & Family Social Work 2004;
9: 259-264 doi:10.1111/j.1365-2206.2004.00333.x
‘The menace of psychiatry’: does it still ring a bell?
Archives of Disease in Childhood 2009; 94: 570-572 doi:10.1136/adc.2008.142851
Liaison and co-operation between paediatrics and mental health
Paediatrics and Child Health 2010; 20: 382-7 doi:10.1016/j.paed.2010.02.012
National guidance on paediatric mental health liaison
Paediatric psychology/mental health liaison: selected references
Liaison Citations: selected journal and book
extracts on paediatric mental health liaison
Parity of mental and physical child health in hospitals
The view from the bridge: bringing a third position to child health
in S Campbell, R Catchpole & D Morley (eds).
Child & Adolescent Mental Health: New Insights to Practice Palgrave Macmillan 2016
Descartes Lives. Commentary on NHS England Five Year Forward View
Paediatric mental health liaison: first principles and misunderstandings, 2017
From Spotlight to Floodlight: camouflaged mental processes in paediatrics, 2017
Deliberate self-poisoning by teenagers
Archives of Disease in Childhood 2019; 104: 728-9. doi:10.1136/archdischild-2018-314742
in M. Waddell & S. Kraemer (eds)
The Tavistock Century: 2020 Vision Phoenix 2021
'No wrong door, no wrong question’: managing uncertainty in child health
Paediatric mental health liaison in 300 words
Family systems and the psychodynamics of therapeutic change
Leaving Home, and the adolescent family therapist
Journal of Adolescence 1982; 5: 51-62 doi.org/10.1016/S0140-1971(82)80018-3
A Note on Spinoza's Contribution to systemic therapy
Family Process 1982; 21: 353-357 doi:10.1111/j.1545-5300.1982.00353.x
Why worry, why now, what for? A pocket guide to systemic/strategic therapy
1986, minor revisions 2013
British Journal of Psychotherapy 1994; 11: 32-45 doi:10.1111/j.1752-0118.1994.tb00700.x
Books reconsidered: Steps to an Ecology of Mind by Gregory Bateson
British Journal of Psychiatry 1993;163: 265-268
Tribal processes in psychotherapy: the stand off between psychoanalysis and systems
in P Nolan & I Säfvestad-Nolan (eds), Object Relations and Integrative Psychotherapy Whurr 2002
Systemic and family therapeutic approaches in psychiatry
Psychiatry 2002 1:3, 21-24
(with Justin Schlicht, first author) in C Flaskas, B Mason & A Perlesz (eds)
The Space Between: Experience, Context, and Process in The Therapeutic Relationship, Karnac 2005
Something happens; elements of therapeutic change
Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry 2006; 11: 239-248 doi:10.1177/1359104506061415
Where did that come from? Countertransference in family therapy
European Psychotherapy 2008; 8: 115-133
Narrative Matters: The Eternal Triangle – a century of family psychology for clinicians
Child and Adolescent Mental Health 2017; 22: 113–114 doi:10.1111/camh.12225
A richer system: a reflecting team in primary care
(with Hilary Graham, Rob Senior, Sue Dickie, Irene Bard & Mark Chan)
Context 2018; 160: 22-25
Medical training, practice and child psychiatry
British Medical Journal 1971; 3: 179 doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.3.5767.179
Tavistock Gazette 1992; 34
On working together: dilemmas for trainers
Association of Child Psychology and Psychiatry Review and Newsletter 1994; 16: 120-9
Who needs child and adolescent psychiatrists?
Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry 1999; 4: 121-127 doi:10.1177/1359104599004001010
Getting in touch: Reflections on Clinical Attentiveness
in C. Macaulay, P. Powell & C. Fertleman (eds), Learning from Paediatric Patient Journeys: What Children and their Families can tell us CRC Press, 2016
Dr Bowlby a psychiatrist for our times
Attachment: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis, 2021;15: 21- 35
Staff development, consultation
and group relations
‘The dangers of this atmosphere’:
a Quaker
connection in the Tavistock Clinic’s development
History of the Human Sciences 2011; 24: 82-102 doi:10.1177/0952695111398570
in D. Armstrong & M. Rustin (eds), Social Defences against Anxiety: Explorations in a Paradigm
Karnac 2015
Learning from experience, 2016
Narrative Matters: Stop running and start thinking
Child and Adolescent Mental Health 2018; 23: 381-383 doi:10.1111/camh.12282
'From doing as you are told to finding your own voice' the shaping of Tavistock ideas by war
Tavistock Centenary slides 22 October 2020
tavistockandportman.nhs.uk/about-us/news/stories/how-two-wars-shaped-tavistock/
The Tavistock is not closing, 2024
Fathers and fragile males
The Origins of Fatherhood, an ancient family process
Family Process 1991; 30: 377-392 doi:10.1111/j.1545-5300.1991.00377.x
in C Clulow (ed), Women, Men and Marriage Sheldon Press 1995
in G Dench (ed), Rewriting the Sexual Contract Transaction 1999
British Medical Journal 2000; 321:1609-12 doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.321.7276.1609
Book review: Textbook of Men's Mental Health
British Journal of Psychiatry 2007;191: 573-574
Trends in Urology & Men's Health 2011; 2: 9-11 doi:10.1002/tre.196
Narratives of fathers and sons: ‘there is no such thing as a father’
in A Vetere & E Dowling (eds) Narrative Therapies with children and their Families (Second Edition)
Brunner/Routledge 2017
Notes on the fragile male, 2017
Submission to UK Parliament Women and Equalities Committee Inquiry, 2019
Attachment, parenting, and policy
Parenting yesterday today and tomorrow
in KN Dwivedi (ed) A Professional Handbook for Enhancing Parenting Wiley 1997
Promoting resilience: changing concepts of parenting and child care
International Journal of Child and Family Welfare 1999; 3: 273-287
in W Wheeler (ed), The Political Subject Lawrence & Wishart 2001
‘The strong get smart while the weak ones fade’
Submission to Good Childhood Inquiry Children’s Society 2006
A tribute to the legacy of John Bowlby at the centenary of his birth
(with Howard Steele and Jeremy Holmes) Attachment & Human Development
2007;
9:4, 303 – 306 doi:10.1080/14616730701711508
Book review: Ed Tronick The Neurobehavioral and
Socio-Emotional
Development of Infants and Children
Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry Psychiatry 2009; 50:11, 1437–1438
doi:10.1111/j.1469-7610.2009.02131.x
"What is wrong with emotional upset?" 50 years on from the Platt Report
edited by Sebastian Kraemer, with Sydney Brandon, Mary Lindsay and Jean Lovell-Davis
Archives of Disease in Childhood 2009;94, 173–177
doi:10.1136/adc.2008.152512
How does insecure attachment impair character development
in J Lexmond & M Grist (eds) 1988; The Character Inquiry Demos 2011
Child Poverty Action Group 2011
The Politics of Attachment two decades on
Children’s centres are the foundation of social regeneration
British Medical Journal 2021;372:n41 doi.org/10.1136/bmj.n41
Child protection
Splitting and stupidity in child sexual abuse
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy 1988; 3: 247-257 doi:10.1080/02668738700700211