Elizabeth Tylden

Elizabeth Tylden (1 August 1917 – 3 February 2009) was a British psychiatrist who specialized in working with adult survivors of child abuse, and those affected by religious cults and the use of mind control techniques. She became known as a forensic psychiatrist who acted as an expert witness in many such cases from 1948 until her retirement in 2004. She attended Godolphin School, Salisbury, and studied medicine at Girton College, Cambridge.

Child and family psychiatry She became a child and family psychiatrist at Bromley Hospital in 1949, and a consultant in 1960. She also worked part-time at University College Hospital, establishing England's first drug abuse clinic. She was involved in drafting the Guidelines of Good Clinical Practice in the Treatment of Drug Misuse published in 1984 by the Department of Health. and together with other professional couples they bought St Julians in 1951, a large country house near Sevenoaks, Kent— established as a private members' club in 1956—where they created an experimental communal household in which families, including professional women, could live and work while having their children looked after in the house's nursery.

Other founder members included Henry Cornelius and John Arnold, film directors and producers, and Ian Gibson-Smith, film producer and writer. Subsequent residents included Rowland Hilder, artist and Mai Zetterling, actress.