Anthony Ryle (2 March 1927 – 29 September 2016), was an English medical doctor. He studied at Oxford and University College Hospital, qualified in medicine in 1949. He worked as a General Practitioner in North London, then directed the University of Sussex Health service, and later worked as a Consultant Psychotherapist in St. Thomas' Hospital, London, from 1983 to 1992. While in general practice he realised that a lot of his patients were presenting with psychological problems or distress, which he confirmed by epidemiological studies. He developed interest in

psychotherapy Psychotherapy (also psychological therapy, talk therapy, or talking therapy) is the use of psychological methods, particularly when based on regular personal interaction, to help a person change behavior, increase happiness, and overcome pro ...

and later developed a time limited therapy which can be offered in the

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. This type of therapy is known as

cognitive analytic therapy Cognitive analytic therapy (CAT) is a form of psychological therapy initially developed in the United Kingdom by Anthony Ryle. This time-limited therapy was developed in the context of the UK's National Health Service with the aim of providing eff ...

. In the 1960s he moved to Kingston, on the outskirts of Lewes, East Sussex with his wife and four children. Ryle died aged 89 on 29 September 2016. Tony is survived by his second wife, Flora Natapoff, and two stepchildren, Sasha and Sam; by the four children, Martin, Cym, Conrad and Miriam, from his first marriage, to Rosemary (nee Langstaff), which ended in divorce; and by nine grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

Early life

Anthony Ryle was born in Brighton, the son of Professor

John Alfred Ryle John Alfred Ryle (1889–1950) was a British physician and epidemiologist. He was born the son of Brighton medical doctor R J Ryle and brother of the Oxford philosopher Gilbert Ryle. He was educated at Brighton College and Guy's Hospital where ...

and Miriam (née Scully) Ryle. He was the nephew of Oxford University Professor of Philosophy

Gilbert Ryle Gilbert Ryle (19 August 1900 – 6 October 1976) was a British philosopher, principally known for his critique of Cartesian dualism, for which he coined the phrase "ghost in the machine." He was a representative of the generation of British ord ...

. He had several siblings, one brother being the Nobel prize-winning astrophysicist

Martin Ryle Sir Martin Ryle (27 September 1918 – 14 October 1984) was an English radio astronomer who developed revolutionary radio telescope systems (see e.g. aperture synthesis) and used them for accurate location and imaging of weak radio source ...

, and another, John, was also a doctor. From Gresham’s school, Norfolk, he went to

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and

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, qualifying in medicine in 1949. He co-founded the innovative Caversham group practice in Kentish Town, north London, just after the inception of the NHS, which, as a lifelong socialist, he fervently supported. His political concerns and nonconformism contributed to a sense of social responsibility that still pervades the model and the CAT community. When he was a teenager, he also had several encounters with the famous philosopher

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when the philosopher stayed in his father's house.Monk, Ray (1990). ''Ludwig Wittgenstein: the Duty of Genius.'' Penguin.

Publications

Chapters

Critically engaging CBT: The view from CAT. Chapter 3 i
Critically engaging CBT
Del Loewenthal and Richard House (eds.). McGraw-Hill: Open University Press (2010)

Books

* Ryle, A. (1990) Cognitive Analytic Therapy: Active Participation in Change. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons. * (1995) Research relating to CAT. In Cognitive Analytic Therapy: Developments in Theory and Practice (ed. A. Ryle), pp. 174– 189. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons. * (1997) Cognitive Analytic Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder: The Model and the Method. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons. * (2014) Diary from the Edge - 1940-1944: A Wartime Adolescence. London: The Hedge Press.

Articles

* (1991) "Object relations theory and activity theory: a proposed link by way of the procedural sequence model". ''British Journal of Medical Psychology'', 64, 307– 316. * (1992) "Critique of a Kleinian case presentation". ''British Journal of Medical Psychology'', 65, 309 – 317. * (1993) "Addiction to the death instinct? A critical review of Joseph’ s paper 'Addiction to near death' ". ''British Journal of Psychotherapy'', 10, 88 – 92. * (1994 a) "Projective identification: a particular form of reciprocal role procedure". ''British Journal of Medical Psychology'', 67, 107 – 114. * (1994 b) "Persuasion or education: the role of reformulation in CAT". ''International Journal of Short Term Psychotherapy'', 9, 111 – 118. * (1995) "Defensive organizations or collusive interpret-ations? A further critique of Kleinian theory and practice". ''British Journal of Psychotherapy'', 12, 60 – 68. * (1996) "Ogden’s autistic-contiguous position and the role of interpretation in analytic theory building". ''British Journal of Medical Psychology'', 69, 129– 138. * (1998) "Transferences and countertransferences: the cognitive analytic therapy perspective". ''British Journal of Psychotherapy'', 14, 303 – 309.

References

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