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Petra Bueskens is a psychotherapist in private practice. She was a lecturer in Sociology and Gender Studies at The University of Melbourne and Deakin University between 2002-09. She is the editor of the forthcoming text, Mothering and Psychoanalysis: Feminist, Sociological and Clinical Perspectives (Demeter Press).