Psychotherapist & author
Juliet Rosenfeld is a UKCP-accredited psychoanalytic psychotherapist living and writer working in London. Over the last fifteen years she has worked in a variety of settings, both NHS and private practice, treating adult individuals and couples.
Her writing has been published in The Times, The Guardian and The Observer, amongst others, and her new book Affairs: True stories of love, lies, hope and desire (Bluebird, Pan Macmillan) will be published in March 2025. In it Juliet brings together personal stories, ground-breaking research and her own expert psychological analysis to lift the lid on this most hidden, yet exceptionally common human behaviour.
Her first book The State of Disbelief: A Story of Death, Love and Forgetting was published by Short Books in 2020 and is a personal exploration of bereavement, mourning and grief through the lens of psychoanalysis.
Juliet was an elected Trustee of the UKCP (UK Council of Psychotherapy) 2019-2022 and has been Clinical Trustee at the Freud Museum since 2022.
Juliet is represented by Caroline Michel (Peters Fraser + Dunlop Literary Agency). You can read more about Juliet’s writing here.
One in five of us will have an affair in our lifetimes – but the reasons behind them might not be what you think.
In her new book, Affairs (published March 2025), psychotherapist Juliet Rosenfeld shares the secrets, lies and motivations behind real affairs, through the lens of five very different true stories. We meet the man who left his wife in the delivery suite to visit his young mistress and the psychologist who put attraction to a patient above career ethics. We hear from the surgeon who risked everything for someone he'd only ever spoken to online and the previously straight woman who cheated on her husband with a female colleague – and changed all of their lives.
In Affairs, this deeply-concealed but exceptionally common aspect of human behaviour is brought out into the light and explored without judgement or shame.
True personal stories, ground-breaking research and expert psychological analysis come together to change everything you have ever thought about infidelity.
