Edna O'Shaughnessy

British Kleinian psychoanalyst who came to Britain from South Africa in the 1950s after studying philosophy. She qualified as a child psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic, then trained at the British Psychoanalytical Society, with Roger Money-Kyrle as her training analyst, and became one of its training and supervising analysts. She wrote on defensive organisations, on the 'enclaves and excursions' by which a patient avoids emotional contact with the analyst, and on the abnormal superego, building on Bion's ego-destructive superego. She co-edited books on projective identification and on Bion's 'Attacks on Linking'.