| Meet the Author |
 Jenny Perkel is a clinical psychologist, a mother, a trained nurse / midwife and an author, who has published numerous articles about babies, children and parenting for South African magazines. Jenny works in private practice in Cape Town, South Africa, offering psychoanalytic psychotherapy to adults and children, parent-infant psychotherapy and parental guidance.She is on the editorial board of the professional journal, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in South Africa. She is also an active member of the Cape Town Society for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and the Western Cape Association for Infant Mental Health. She has trained and supervised childcare workers for various child and adolescent mental health projects and children’s homes. She has been involved in postgraduate teaching of child psychoanalytic psychotherapy at the University of Cape Town and the University of the Western Cape. She has done radio appearances, talks and presentations with parents, mental health professionals and lay counsellors in areas of infant and child mental health and postnatal depression. She is the in-house psychologist at the South African parenting magazine: Living and Loving. Jenny is dedicated to the psychological health of parents and their young children. If you would like to e-mail her, your correspondence will be treated as confidential and will not appear on this website. |