Kirsty Hall obituary

My friend Kirsty Hall, who has died of cancer aged 67, was for years a well-known figure in London’s psychoanalytic community, practising as an analyst, teaching at Middlesex University, the Guild of Psychotherapists and the Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis, and writing several books, as well as founding her own publishing company, Rebus Press.

She was a powerful figure, with a fierce determination when she was set on a course of action, shaking up an often cautious and moribund profession. At the same time, she was a patient and committed teacher and supervisor, a generous colleague, and a dynamic organiser whose initiatives bore vigorous fruit.