Glasser | Mervin

Mervin Glasser was born in 1928 in Johannesburg, South Africa. He read psychology at the University of Witwatersrand. He then went to England to pursue a career as a psychoanalyst. He graduated from Westminster Hospital Medical School in 1958 and qualified as an Associate Member at the London Institute of Psychoanalysis in 1963.

He was Chairman of the Portman Clinic, London from 1971 until 1994. The Clinic is a National Health Service psychotherapy clinic for people with criminal and sexual behaviour problems. In this position he forged links with the Institute of Psychiatry's forensic department, the Tavistock Clinic and the Home Office; with academia, particularly the London School of Economics; with London hospitals, the police, the prison service and the Inner London Probation Service.

He is well known for his writing and teaching on the origins of delinquency and perversion He lectured internationally and in many hospitals and centres in Britain, including regular lecures at the Anna Freud Centre in London. He was also a training analyst at the Institute of Psychoanalysis and became Director of the Clinic upon his retirement from the Portman.

Following the release of Nelson Mandela from jail, he became the first chairman of the South African Psychoanalytic Trust; and he contributed a vivid paper to its first international psychoanalytic conference in Cape Town in 1998.

Mervin Glasser died in 2000.

Psychoanalyst

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