ABSTRACT
Andrew was my PhD supervisor for a very long time, almost ten years, on and off, between 2001 and 2011. This takes patience, endurance even. We are the same age. I saw my PhD project as a kind of ‘swansong’ begun towards the end of my career and the product of 30 years of reading. It grew out of my involvement with both the history of psychology and critical approaches to psychoanalysis. The PhD thesis was more like an expression of what I had done and where I had been. Andrew saw this as an important function of a doctorate program and encouraged candidates for whom the work had a closing function at the end of a working life. I was at a very busy point of my career as a consultant clinical psychologist and psychotherapist and had increasing family responsibilities. Andrew understood this. Since I lived in Sussex, UK, one thing that was helpful in a practical way was that Andrew was able to give supervision sessions in London rather than Essex.
