Anne-Marie Sandler (British Psychoanalytical Society)

Dr Ronald Britton (British Psychoanalytical Society)

Joscelyn Richards (British Psychoanalytic Association)

Joscelyn Richards is a Training and   Supervising Analyst of the British Psychoanalytic Association. She played a major role in establishing the BPA and its training and was involved for ten years as the 1st Chair of the Training Committee. She is currently Chair of the Training Analyst Committee and a Member of the Board. She has recently helped with the updating and revising of the BPA’s Constitution.    She led the setting up of the British Psychoanalytic Council in 1991 and served as its first Chair through the 1990s.  She co-founded a psychoanalytic psychotherapy centre in the NHS in 1985 and was Consultant Clinical Psychologist there until her retirement. She is currently in private practice. She has taught widely and presented, written and published papers on working with patients with borderline and psychotic disorders. In 2013 she received the BPC’s Lifetime Achievement Award for services to psychoanalysis and in 2019 was made an Honorary Fellow of the BPA for distinguished service to the Association.

Mary Twyman (British Psychoanalytic Association)

Mary Twyman is a member of the BPAS. She has been associated with the BPA since its inception and is a Training and Supervising Analyst. She has served on the Board and also as Chair of the Ethics Committee. She was made an Honorary Fellow in 2019.

Helen Alfille (British Psychoanalytic Association)

Helen Alfille is a  founding member of the British Psychoanalytic Association together with Sharon Raeburn and Dan Twomey.  She was Vice President during Sharon Raeburn’s  Presidency of the new Association.  She is a Training Analyst  and  Supervisor for the BPA and was made an Honorary  Fellow  in  2018.

While working with the original group of interested  colleagues  who joined us in establishing the BPA as a Component  Society of the International  Psychoanalytic  Association and as a Psychoanalytic Training Association in the UK,  she has been a member of the Board and served on various committees including  Training,  Ethics, and Selection.

Sharon Raeburn (British Psychoanalytic Association)

Sharon Raeburn  was a founding member of the British Psychoanalytic Association  and its first President.  She was a Training  Analyst and Supervisor of the Association.

Together with close colleagues and friends,  Dan Twomey and Helen Alfille she helped instigate the long and complicated process of becoming a Component Society of the International  Psychoanalytic Association,  achieved in  2009. This was helped by a dedicated small group of like minded colleagues.  In  2014  Sharon was made an Honorary  Fellow of the BPA in recognition of her dedication to psychoanalysis and determined work to realise the dream of founding a new psychoanalytic training in the UK.

As well as achieving the creation of the BPA and being involved in all aspects of a new society, its governance, constitution, detailed work of setting up committees and the training, she also worked in various capacities in the IPA  and the EPF.

Alan Hinkley (British Psychoanalytic Association)

Before training in psychoanalysis, Alan pursued careers bridging languages and cultures. Born and brought up in New Zealand and educated there and in the UK, he worked initially for the New Zealand Foreign Ministry in Wellington, London and Baghdad, and then in international finance, notably with French government agencies.

Alan feels these experiences helped him work not only with difference in the analytic encounter but also in relations among psychoanalytic institutions.  He worked closely with Joscelyn Richards, Helen Alfillé and Sharon Raeburn in bringing together in the first BPA Constitution the membership requirements of the IPA and the then British Association of Psychotherapists (“BAP”), out of which the BPA was emerging. This was a key step forward, enabling BPA Members to continue their professional life in the BAP while also becoming psychoanalysts in a new IPA Component Society. Alan’s innovative work was recognised when, following his retirement, he became, in 2016, an Honorary Fellow of the Association.