Claire Asherson Bartram

Claire Asherson Bartram
DPsych BA
(born Aug 1954) is a psychotherapist and researcher into the dynamics of stepfamilies. Until 2007 she practiced and wrote under the name Claire Salisbury.
Family
Asherson Bartram is the granddaughter of the ENT surgeon Dr Nehemiah Asherson, the daughter of the immunologist Dr. Geoffrey Asherson, and the sister of the psychiatric reseacher Professor Philip Asherson.
She is married, and has two children and one stepson.
Education and Work
She attended St Christopher School, Letchworth and Middlesex University where she attained a degree in Music.
She is a practitioner of Gestalt Therapy and has had a practice in North London since 1991.
Her specialisation in stepfamilies was derived from both her psychotherapy practice and her own family experiences. Her doctoral thesis, Narratives of Mothers in Stepfamily Situations: an Exploratory Investigation, was awarded in 2009 through a joint programme between the Metanioa Institute and Middlesex University. In it she explores the dynamics of stepfamilies from the viewpoint of mothers. Her research further explored the congruence of the interrelationships within stepfamilies with the topology of therapy groups.
In 2007 she co-founded StepIn ASAP, an organisation that supports and educates psychotherapists and counsellors in their handling of stepfamily issues, a resource unique within the United Kingdom.
Asherson Bartram served on the management committee of the Gestalt Association UK (GAUK) from 1998-2006 when it became the British Gestalt Society (BGS) and then until the Society was wound up in 2008. She has also served on the organising committee of the UK Association for Gestalt Practitioners (UKAGP) since its inception in 2007.
Publications
Narratives of Mothers in Stepfamily Situations: an Exploratory Investigation, (2010) Gestaltworks (Doctoral thesis)
Parenting in Stepfamilies, Self and Society Vol 29 No. 1 (April- May 2001)
All Together Now: What to Expect When Stepfamilies Get Together, (as Claire Salisbury, and with Cheryl Walters), (1997) National Stepfamily Association ISBN 978-1873309230

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