Kohon, Gregorio

Gregorio Kohon is a writer and a poet. He is also a training analyst of the British Psycho-Analytical Society. Originally from Argentina, he moved to England in 1970, where he studied and worked with R.D. Laing and his colleagues of the anti-psychiatry movement. He qualified as a psychoanalyst in 1979. In 1988 he co-founded, with Valli Shaio Kohon, the Brisbane Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, which he directed until December 1994. At present, he works in London in private practice.