Marguerite Reid is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist with long-standing clinical expertise in perinatal mental health. She co-founded the Perinatal and Infant Mental Health Service at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital over 20 years ago, and has remained closely focused on the psychological realities of pregnancy, birth, early parenting, and the relational pressures these can place on individuals and couples. A central strand of her work addresses the way perinatal loss can shape the inner world of a subsequent pregnancy and baby, including how mourning, fear, and protective defences may influence bonding and the developing parent–infant relationship.

Marguerite has served as a visiting lecturer and trainer at Tavistock Relationships, contributing to courses and continuing professional development in perinatal and couple psychoanalytic psychotherapy. She has taught extensively in the UK and internationally, including infant observation teaching and course development. She also co-founded an Infant Observation course in Izmir, Turkey.

Marguerite’s doctoral research examined perinatal loss and the mother’s experience following the birth of a subsequent child. She has published in this area, with a particular focus on the emotional aftermath of baby loss, the psychological impact of traumatic birth, and the ways early experiences can shape bonding and attachment. Her published work includes: “Clinical research: The inner world of the mother and her new baby – born in the shadow of death” (Journal of Child Psychotherapy, 2003), “The loss of a baby and the birth of the next infant: the mother’s experience” (Journal of Child Psychotherapy, 2007), and “The impact of traumatic delivery on the mother–infant relationship” (Infant Observation, 2011).