Attachment and New Beginnings: Reflections on Psychoanalytic Therapy

This collection of written pieces plots the work of an NHS psychiatrist, turning the science of psychiatry into human encounters. Jonathan Pedder could recast the ordinary everyday problems of the public service into an elegantly refined discourse on the Shakespeare, interweaving the psychoanalytic unconscious with the aesthetically creative. He had a career teaching and inspiring colleagues and students with psychoanalytic ways of thinking, encouraging and supporting them in the everyday chores, and challenges of contemporary psychiatry.