MARINA by Lynne Amidon
This paper describes my ongoing work with a girl I shall call Marina. Marina has substantial and entrenched difficulties in thinking, in being able to know about her own internal state, or in allowing herself to be helped.
I first met her when she was four-years-old and I had been asked to do an assessment. We started once-weekly psychotherapy in September 2015; she is coming up to fourteen and we are starting our 9th year of therapy.