Dr. Ronald Britton is a training analyst of the British
Psychoanalytical Society. He was born in the North of
England and was educated at the Royal Grammar School,
Lancaster. He completed his medical studies at University
College, London. Before committing himself full time to
psychoanalytic practice, his career had included both adult
and child psychiatry. During the 1970s he was Chairman of
the Department for Children and Parents at the Tavistock
Clinic, where his special interests had been in the provision
of psychotherapy for severely deprived and abused children
and consulting concerning their care in the community.

Dr. Michael Feldman studied psychology at University
College, London, and qualified in medicine at University
College Hospital. He trained in psychiatry at the Maudsley
Hospital, where he continues to work part-time as consul-
tant psychotherapist and chairman of the psychotherapy
unit. For the remainder of his time he works in private
practice as a psychoanalyst and as a training analyst of the
British Psychoanalytical Society.

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