Barbara Steck is a lecturer emeritus in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy of the University of Basel. She trained in psychoanalysis and family therapy and worked many years in the child and adolescent psychiatric departments of the Universities of Lausanne and Basel and in private practice. Her longtime interest in the fields of adoption, traumatization, grief, and families with ill parents, as well as individual psychotherapy and group psychodrama lead to numerous publications. She is author or co-author of books on adoption, psychosomatics, indication for psychotherapy of children and adolescents, with her husband Andreas on brain and mind and is still active as a psychoanalytic therapist and supervisor.