Wynne Godley was by turns a professional oboist, a fellow of King’s College, Cambridge, an economist at the Treasury and a director of the Royal Opera House. Yet at thirty he found himself ‘living through an artificial self’ and turned to psychoanalysis for help.
Masud Khan was a protegé of D.W. Winnicott and at one point the darling of British psychoanalysis. He was also sadistic, manipulative and a shameless self-promoter. In this unforgettable piece from 2001, Godley describes his baffling and disastrous sessions with Khan.
Read by Duncan Wilkins.
You can read the original piece and the many letters it inspired here, or more by Wynne Godley from the archive. Explore our collection of pieces about psychoanalysis gone wrong.
