He was Visiting Professor at the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Kent and is now Professor of Psychotherapy and Psychoanalytic Studies at the Centre for Psychotherapeutic Studies, University of Sheffield. He is Associate Editor of Psychoanalytic Studies and Co-Editor of Human Relations, Authority and Justice, both of which are electronic and print journals. He moderates a number of email forums and is on the board of a number of other academic journals. He is also Director of the Institute of Human Relations in Sofia, Bulgaria. He has written widely in the history of ideas of human nature, psychology, evolutionary theory, theory of ideology, psychoanalysis, group relations and cultural studies.
People come from all over the world for analysis, training, supervision and postgraduate studies.
The Institute of Group Analysis. The Portman Clinic is a leading institution for the study and treatment of sexual disorders. London is also the leading centre for work in the Group Relations tradition founded by Bion. The academic discipline Psychoanalytic Studies was founded in Britain, and there are now a dozen MA and doctoral trainings in the British Isles. By that I mean that the relationship between the British Psycho-Analytical Society and the rest of the psychoanalytic culture, broadly conceived, has had important inhibiting as well as undeniably enabling effects in terms of productivity and prestige.