Gabriel Kirtchuk (10 June 1949-2 April 2019)

Founder Member of the British Psychoanalytic Association and Senior Member of both the British Psychotherapy Foundation and the Institute of Group Analysis. Previously he was Consultant Adult Psychotherapist in a Forensic Psychotherapy Department and at the Cassel Hospital. He is Senior Lecturer at Buckinghamshire New University. He is co-editor with Gabriel Kirtchuk of Psychic Assaults and Frightened Clinicians: Countertransference in Forensic Settings and Consulting to Chaos: An Approach to Patient-Centred Reflective Practice and is interested in the development of Bion's thinking on psychosis and its application to clinical work with individuals, groups and organisations. He currently practises privately as a psychoanalyst and supervisor.