Henry Ezriel

Having taken a medical degree from Vienna, Ezriel emigrated to England, to work post-war alongside W. R. Bion as consultant psychiatrist to the Tavistock.

[1] There he developed his method of psychoanalytic group work, expounded in a series of articles in the fifties, and through his personal teaching thereafter.

[3] Ezriel influentially proposed using what he called a “three part interpretation”, including the three key areas of adaptation, desire and anxiety.

[5] Criticisms of Ezriel's approach included the way his minimalist interventions tended to promote an image of the omniscient therapist, as well as a feeling that individual patients were being neglected by comparison with the group as a whole.

When I visited him for the last time, he had unfortunately suffered a stoke prevented him from enjoying the book by one of Israel's beterr painters I had brought him.