Personality Disorder: A Diagnosis of Disordered Relating*

Consultant adult psychotherapist and Clinical Director of the Portman Clinic (Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, London), an NHS forensic psychotherapy clinic. He is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist (British Association of Psychotherapists), a psychoanalyst (British Psychoanalytic Association and the International Psychoanalytic Association), and a Full Member of the BSCPC. He was previously Deputy Director and Clinical and Training Co-ordinator at TCCR. He teaches, lectures, and undertakes organisational consultancy in the UK and abroad. The author of many book chapters and journal articles, he has edited and co-edited five books, including Psychotherapy with Couples (Karnac, 1993), Intrusiveness and Intimacy in the Couple (Karnac, 1995) with James Fisher, and most recently, Lectures on Violence, Perversion and Delinquency (Karnac, 2007) with David Morgan. He has a private practice as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist, psychoanalyst, and teacher.