Barbara Steck is a lecturer emeritus in child and adolescent psychiatry and psychotherapy at the University of Basel. She trained in psychoanalysis and family therapy and worked for many years in both 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, have led to numerous publications. She is author or co-author of books on adoption, psychosomatics, and indications for psychotherapy in children and adolescents. With her husband Andreas, she is the co-author of Brain and Mind. She is still active as a psychoanalytic therapist and supervisor.