Margot Sunderland is an English children's psychologist and psychotherapist. She is the Director of Education and Training at the Centre for Child Mental Health London and an honorary visiting fellow at the London Metropolitan University. She has been working with families and children for over 20 years. She is the author of over twenty books in the field of child mental health, which collectively have been translated into eighteen languages and published in twenty-four countries.
Margot Sunderland has written over twenty books on child mental health. In her popular book The Science of Parenting, which has been translated into several languages and won the first prize in the British Medical Association Medical Book Awards in 2007, she states that emotional neglect in childhood including letting a baby cry it out can cause brain damage by severe stress and high amounts of cortisol. In this connection she also refers to research results of Jaak Panksepp.