Meira Likierman is a Consultant Child Psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic in London, where she has for many years taught on Melanie Klein. She has led the doctoral programme at the Tavistock Child and Family Department and was visiting lecturer at the Oxford University Psychodynamic Studies Programme. She lectures in the U.K., Europe and the U.S. and is an editor of the Journal of Child Psychotherapy. Her book Melanie Klein: Her Work in Context was published in 2001.