We are delighted to welcome Professor Miriam Steele to launch the MINDinMIND Lecture Series as she explores the intricate relationship between attachment, trauma and body image. Drawing on her pioneering research at the New School's Center for Attachment Research, Miriam will introduce the innovative 'Mirror Interview' (Kernberg, Normandin, & Buhl-Nielsen, 2006) – a unique assessment that examines the quality of self development and body representations including body esteem, reflective functioning, coherence and verbal and non-verbal expressions of affect - providing a window particularly into the internal world of adolescents and the earlier mother-child relationship.