Robert Hinshelwood, M.D.

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Dr. R.D. Hinshelwood trained at University College Hospital Medical School - MB,BS 1965; became a Member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists 1990; and a Fellow of the College 1996. He trained as psycho-analyst at the British Psycho-Analytical Society, qualifying in 1976.

He worked during the 1970s at the Marlborough Day Hospital, a therapeutic community, and during the 1980s ran a Department of Psychotherapy in the NHS.

From 1993-1997 he was Clinical Director of the Cassel Hospital, one of the first therapeutic communities, and a place where the practice was developed.

In 1997 he was appointed Professor in the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Essex.

He has a number of publications including the books:

• What Happens in Groups (1987)
• A Dictionary of Kleinian Thought (1989)
• Clinical Klein (1994)
• Therapy or Coercian: Does Psychoanalysis differ from Brainwashing? (1997)
• Melanie Klein for Beginners (1997)
• and, with Nick Manning, (eds.), [Therapeutic Communities: Reflections and Progress (1979)]