Dr. Coleman Noctor

And I remember saying to the lady who was kind of leading that, how do I become you?

And she told me what I needed to do in terms of postgrads and things like that.

Yeah, so that was my journey into that.

I think nursing is one of those, not a vocation, but you're never not a nurse.

It's always part of you.

And so I wouldn't be keen to get rid of my nursing identity.

It's something I wear with a lot of pride, to be honest.

And I teach undergraduate nurses now.

It's very much part of my radar in that sense.

But psychotherapy was a completely different journey.

You know, all the personal therapy and...

We had to do things like infant obs, which is like I had to observe an infant for an hour a week for the first two years of its life, from birth to its second birthday.

Why?

I suppose that the idea around getting a real intense lens into attachment and the importance of that early...

formative experience and so while i would have given out so much about it at the time it's something that i would oftentimes look back now and say gosh that was fantastic in terms of i suppose giving you that insight into just how formative those years are you know those early years even though they're not privy to conscious memory they're formative for sure in terms of what i believe we become as we become ourselves if that makes sense and then obviously loads of personal therapy

loads of supervision and carrying cases and all that sort of stuff.

So I've worked very luckily as a psychoanalyst ever since.

So I've been doing that since 2009.

Psychoanalysis is kind of a rare route.

A lot of people would finish nursing and might go into something like family therapy or CBT.