Stanley Ruszczynski is a psychoanalyst and psychoanalytic couple psychotherapist, and teacher, in private practice.
Between 1997 and 2021, he was a Consultant Adult Psychotherapist at the Portman Clinic, part of the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust (including holding the role of Clinic Director, 2005-2016). The Portman Clinic offers psychotherapeutic treatment to patients disturbed by their criminality, violence or damaging sexual behaviours. Between 1979 and 1997, he was a senior member of staff at Tavistock Relationships (including holding the roles of Deputy Director, 1987-1993). He has taught extensively in the UK and abroad and over the last ten years, together with Mary Morgan, has established the practice of psychoanalytic couple psychotherapy in Poland, for which they have been awarded Honorary Membership of the Polish Association of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy.
He has authored many book chapters and journal articles, and is a contributory editor and co-editor of five books, including Psychotherapy with Couples (Karnac Books, 1993), Intrusiveness and Intimacy in the Couple (Karnac Books, 1995) co-edited with James Fisher, and Lectures on Violence, Perversion and Delinquency (Karnac Books, 2007), co-edited with David Morgan.
