Influential Figures Leading to Interest in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis The speaker’s career journey started with uncertainty about the field of medicine to specialize in, leading to exploring various jobs and finally settling into psychotherapy. Influenced by notable figures like Heinz Wolf and Jeremy Holmes, who sparked an interest in psychodynamics, Freud, and attachment theory. This interest led to training in psychoanalysis and subsequently working within a mental health system, focusing on providing services to a large population with borderline personality disorder through easily implementable treatments. Transcript: Speaker 1 Yeah, that was somewhat later so I then wasn’t sure what Brontchen medicine I wanted to be in and so on and I mucked around for a bit which is quite common in those days doing different jobs And moving around and then I then did a light on a saccartre and I did a job in saccartre and actually was influenced very much by two main people really. One was somebody called Heinz Wolf who was quite a well known psychodynamics saccartre interested at the time and a very warm there. It also been a refugee as it happens in 1937 or something like that, 38 from Germany but he was very influential and interested me in Freud at the time and then another one a little bit later Jeremy Holmes who was very interested in attachment and attachment theory so I was influenced by them and that led me to psychotherapy and saccartre and so on. So then I went into my own therapy and from there I then became more interested in psychoanalysis as a way of thinking and working and so trained in that and it was from there in a way I think Peter will agree that I was then not working in a psychoanalyst in a way but working in a social mental health system so in the social system you know you’ve got a population of half a million You’re providing mental health services to and I a number of them had borderline personality disorder that was a service I was in and therefore adapting some sort of treatment which Was easily learnable by mental health staff and actually implementable and also implementable to large groups of people you know we had 1000 referrals a year (Time 0:09:16)