ABSTRACT
David Tuckett is a fellow and training analyst at the Institute of Psychoanalysis, London, professor of psychoanalysis at University College London (UCL), and the director of UCL’s Centre for the Study of Decision-Making Uncertainty. Trained in economics, medical sociology, and psychoanalysis, he is a former president of the European Psychoanalytic Federation (EPF), chair of the EPF’s Comparative Clinical Methods Working Party, editor in chief of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis, and winner of the Sigourney Award for Psychoanalysis. While the majority of psychoanalysts come to the profession from medicine, psychology, or social work, Dr Tuckett’s start was in the field of economics, which may account for the discipline and precision he brings to his clinical work. Some patients, for any of a number of reasons, ranging from their private view of fair economics to profound suspicion and mistrust, might find the policy unacceptable.
