Description: Focuses on the problem of psychosis, understood from a psychoanalytic perspective, as it manifests itself in different contexts and different levels of organisation: from the individual psychoanalytic session, through work with couples, groups and institutions and wider levels of social organisation.
Brief description: David Bell is a training and supervising analyst at the British Psychoanalytic Society and consultant medical psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic. He is well-known as a teacher of psychoanalysis and for his publications on the theory of narcissism, the work of Bion, and the psychoanaltyic approach to serious mental illness. He has published Reason and Passion (jointly with Hanna Segal) and edited Psychoanalysis and Culture: A Kleinian Perspective, both published in the Tavistock Clinic Series.