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Michael Guy Thompson

Michael Guy Thompson, PhD, received his psychoanalytic training from RD Laing and associates at the Philadelphia Association in London and served as the organization’s administrator from 1973–1980. He is Personal and Supervising Analyst and Faculty Member, Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California, San Francisco, and Founder and Director of the New School for Existential Psychoanalysis, a virtual two-year training program modeled on his training with RD Laing, based in San Francisco. He is the author of over 100 journal articles, book chapters, and reviews, as well as numerous books, including The Truth About Freud’s Technique (1994), The Ethic of Honesty (2004), The Legacy of R. D. Laing: An Appraisal of His Contemporary Relevance (2015), and The Death of Desire: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness (2017 2nd ed.), an extensively revised and expanded edition of the original, published by Routledge. His current book project, Essays in Existential Psychoanalysis: On the Primacy of Authenticity, will be published by Routledge this year. He lives in Berkeley, California.

Michael Guy Thompson, PhD, is a psychoanalyst who worked with R.D. Laing for many years in London. He continues to work with extreme states, and has been training therapists for more than 30 years. He has lectured all over the world and his books include The Death of Desire: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness (2nd, revised edition) (Routledge).

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Michael Guy Thompson

Michael Guy Thompson, PhD, received his psychoanalytic training from RD Laing and associates at the Philadelphia Association in London and served as the organization’s administrator from 1973–1980. He is Personal and Supervising Analyst and Faculty Member, Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California, San Francisco, and Founder and Director of the New School for Existential Psychoanalysis, a virtual two-year training program modeled on his training with RD Laing, based in San Francisco. He is the author of over 100 journal articles, book chapters, and reviews, as well as numerous books, including The Truth About Freud’s Technique (1994), The Ethic of Honesty (2004), The Legacy of R. D. Laing: An Appraisal of His Contemporary Relevance (2015), and The Death of Desire: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness (2017 2nd ed.), an extensively revised and expanded edition of the original, published by Routledge. His current book project, Essays in Existential Psychoanalysis: On the Primacy of Authenticity, will be published by Routledge this year. He lives in Berkeley, California.

Michael Guy Thompson, PhD, is a psychoanalyst who worked with R.D. Laing for many years in London. He continues to work with extreme states, and has been training therapists for more than 30 years. He has lectured all over the world and his books include The Death of Desire: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness (2nd, revised edition) (Routledge).

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