Andrzej Skarbek

Andrzej Karol Skarbek (10 January 1925 – 16 November 2011), also known as Andrew Skarbek, was a Polish psychotherapist who worked in Britain and became a pioneer "who helped to develop psychotherapy services in the NHS" (National Health Service).

[1] His cousin was Krystyna Skarbek, who worked for British secret services (the Special Operations Executive) during the Second World War.

Andrzej identified her body when she was stabbed to death in a Kensington hotel, where she then lived, on 15 June 1952.

[1] Skarbek learned English on his arrival in Britain and entered St Mary's Hospital, London, qualifying as a doctor in 1954.

He eventually met psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott and decided to specialise in psychiatry.