Karen Glistrup

Karen Glistrup is a social worker and a psychotherapist specialized in family therapy.

Glistrup’s vision is that fewer children in the world should grow up lonely, with feelings of shame and wrongness. Her books provide new insights into the inner lives of children, and inspire a greater sense of trustworthiness, and thereby better relations between adults and children.

Karen did her groundbreaking work offering family talks to parents with mental illness and their children within a traditional psychiatric institution at a time and in a professional culture, which would have kept most people from even trying. Her results were convincing, and today family talks to mentally ill parents and their children are offered in psychiatry throughout Denmark: The Danish model.

Today Glistrup runs a clinic in Denmark where she counsels families and children as well as supervises and teaches professional psychotherapists. She has been active in the international professional community and a speaker at conferences concerning childrens inner life / children as relatives / young carers.

Her Majesty Queen Mary of Denmark supported Glistrup’s vision with a warm forward to her bestseller Talk About It... With Every Child – A Book About Feelings in the Family.