Henri Rey is most famous in Britain for his pioneering work with psychotic and borderline patients. He was born in Mauritius but trained as a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in London mainly working as a consultant psychotherapist at the Maudsley Hospital, an institution to which he developed a strong attachment and one that provided him with a base in which he was able to make a unique contribution to the fields of both psychiatry and psychotherapy. Many young psychiatrists and other mental health workers who were lucky enough to experience his teaching, particularly in the realms of supervision and assessment of deeply disturbed patients, were inspired to think psychodynamically about the psychotic and borderline patients they were seeing. His style was quite charismatic and contained an