Appendix A

Michael Briant is a member of the Guild of Psychotherapists and an Associate member of the Cambridge Society for Psychotherapy. After graduating from the University of Cambridge he worked for the British Council, where, amongst other things he was involved in the cultural exchange agreements which, it was hoped, would further understanding between Britain and the former Soviet Union. He left to pursue post-graduate studies at the L.S.E., where, as a pupil of Ernest Gellner, he wrote a doctoral thesis on psychoanalysis. His experience has mostly been in various parts of the education system, for the last 36 years within the University of Cambridge, where he also directed a postgraduate diploma in psychodynamic studies, run jointly by the University Counselling Service and the Department of Continuing Education. Michael has contributed to leading journals in the field of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis and is the author of “Psychotherapy, Ethics, and Society: Another Kind of Conversation’ (2018), of which this book is a new, revised and expanded edition.