About the Author

David Millar is a grammar schoolboy from Birmingham born in the middle of the war. He read chemistry at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, theology at St Catharine's College, Cambridge and was Vicar of West Dean, Sussex. Leaving the church in 1975, he read psychology at Birkbeck College London and trained as a clinical psychologist at the University of Leeds. He is a Lifetime Honorary Senior Clinician, Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, where he was a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Head of the Tavistock multidisciplinary adult psychoanalytic psychotherapy training. He is a Fellow, training and supervising analyst, and one-time Chair of Education of the British Psychoanalytical Society and Institute of Psychoanalysis.