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Richard Rusbridger is a Training and Supervising Analyst and a Child Analyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society.  He spent a year at the Royal College of Music before reading Music and English at Cambridge.  While working as a psychiatric social worker at a hospital in London he trained as a child psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic.  He worked in child and family centres in North London before training as a psychoanalyst at the Institute of Psychoanalysis.  He is Chair of the Curriculum Committee on the M.Sc. course in Theoretical Psychoanalytic Studies at 911±¬ÁÏÍø.  

He has taught, and run clinical seminars, at the Institute of Psychoanalysis and at a number of psychotherapy trainings in the UK, as well as in Germany and the United States.  For a number of years he led infant observation seminars on psychotherapy trainings.  At the Institute of Psychoanalysis he has been a member of the Curriculum, Ethics, Student Progress and Admissions Committees.  He has co-edited (with Robert Michels et al.)  Key Papers on Countertransference, London: Karnac, 2002;  (with Susan Budd)   Introducing Psychoanalysis: Essential Themes and Topics,  London: Routledge, 2005;  and (with Priscilla Roth) Encounters with Melanie Klein: Selected Papers of Elizabeth Spillius, London: Routledge, 2007.   He has been Book Reviews Editor of the Journal of Child Psychotherapy and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy; served on the Board of the New Library of Psychoanalysis; and has been on the Board of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis since 1996.  He has been a member of the Education Section of the International Journal since 1998, and its Chair since 2010.  He is Hon Secretary of the Melanie Klein Trust, and is in full-time private practice in London.   He can be contacted via the Psychoanalysis Unit.   His publications include:

Rusbridger, R. (2004)  Elements of the Oedipus complex: a Kleinian account, International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 85: 731-48.

Rusbridger, R (2008) The internal world of Don Giovanni, International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 69: 181-194.

Rusbridger, R (2011)  Affects in Melanie Klein, International Journal of Psychoanalysis, (in press).