Barbara Steck is a lecturer emeritus in child and adolescent psychiatry and psychotherapy at the University of Basel. She trained in psychoanalysis and family therapy and worked many years in the child and adolescent psychiatric departments of the Universities of Lausanne and Basel and in private practice. She is author or coauthor of books on adoption, psychosomatics, indication for psychotherapy of children and adolescents, with her husband Andreas Steck on brain and mind and is still active as a psychoanalytic therapist and supervisor.