Meeting Ron Britton: DVD

Meeting Ron Britton is part of the Encounters Through Generations video series in which senior psychoanalysts from the British Institute of Psychoanalysis talk about their lives and work to analysts and candidates in training. The series is a living testimony to the richness of knowledge and experience of analysts trained in the British tradition.

Ronald Britton was born in Lancaster (UK) in 1932. After winning a scholarship to Lancaster Royal Grammar School in 1943 he went on to study Medicine at University College London and University College Hospital Medical School between 1951 and 1956. He specialised in neurology at Queen Square, in psychiatry and child psychiatry at The Maudsley Hospital and in psychotherapy at the Tavistock Clinic before starting the psychoanalytic training at the British Institute of Psychoanalysis in 1974 where he was appointed as a training analyst in 1985. He is a renowned international writer, lecturer who has made major contributions to Kleinian thinking. He is a former President of the British Institute of Psychoanalysis and former Vice-President of the International Psychoanalytical Association. In 1957 he married Ritaclare with whom he has three children and six grandchildren.