John Steiner

Who is John Steiner?

John Steiner is a psychoanalyst, author and trainer at the British Psychoanalytical Society. Steiner, a 'prolific London post-Kleinian', is best known for his conceptions of the "pathological organisation" or the "psychic retreat"...between the paranoid-schizoid and the depressive positions'. His book Psychic Retreats describes a treatment methodology for patients with complex defence mechanisms that are difficult to treat with conventional psychoanalysis.