Maudsley Lecture | From the Brain Injury Clinic

John Ling is a Nurse Consultant in Brain Injury at King’s College Hospital. He has over twenty years’ experience nursing patients with acquired brain injury from intensive care through to follow up clinics. He has established a multi-disciplinary brain injury team at King’s. He is currently Chair of Trustees of Headway South East London North West Kent, a local charity that provides support to people living with the long-term sequelae of acquired brain injury. He is training to be a family psychotherapist.

Kathy Taylor is a Fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society and works as a psychoanalyst in private clinical practice in South London. She was originally trained as a Clinical Psychologist and worked for many years in the South London and Maudsley NHS Trust where she specialised in outreach, psychosis and homelessness work. She led on the development of a psychologically informed environment service in Lambeth homeless hostels, in partnership with Lambeth Council and ThamesReach.