Barry Proner

Barry Proner is a psychiatrist, child and adolescent psychiatrist, and senior Training and Supervising Analyst of the Society of Analytical Psychology. He trained in psychiatry and child psychiatry at Harvard Medical School in the United States before relocating to London, where he undertook his analytic training at the SAP under Dr. Michael Fordham, one of the foremost developers of the post-Jungian developmental tradition. Proner has maintained a full-time private practice of analysis and analytic psychotherapy for over forty years, working with adults, children, and adolescents.

His published contributions to the Journal of Analytical Psychology span four decades and address core questions of clinical technique and psychoanalytic theory. Notable papers include 'Attacks on Analysis' (1983), 'Defences of the Self and Envy of Oneself' (1986), 'Envy of Oneself, Adhesive Identification and Pseudo-Adult States' (1988), 'Bodily States of Anxiety: The Movement from Somatic States to Thought' (2005), and 'Thoughts on Dependency, Trust, Perversity and Addiction in the Analytic Relationship' (2025). He has taught and supervised extensively in the United Kingdom and internationally.

Beyond his clinical and scholarly work, Proner serves on the team of the APOLLO Dogs Charity Trust, reflecting a personal commitment that complements his professional life. His undergraduate education was completed at Cornell University, grounding his later medical and psychoanalytic training in a broad liberal arts foundation.