James Gooch (2 November 1934 – 4 April 2020) was an American

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and

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influential in promoting the ideas of

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Wilfred Bion Wilfred Ruprecht Bion DSO (; 8 September 1897 – 8 November 1979) was an influential English psychoanalyst, who became president of the British Psychoanalytical Society from 1962 to 1965. Early life and military service Bion was born in Ma ...

(with whom he trained), and the British Object Relations theorists in Southern California in the 1980s and 1990s. He was chair of the Department of Psychoanalysis at the California Graduate Institute, an independent professional school for psychologists, and during 1984-1990 he was founding president of the

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(PCC), a Kleinian-oriented

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. He was also a founding member of The Confederation of Independent Psychoanalytic Societies and served for eight years as the North American Representative to the Board of the IPA

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. Gooch received his MD from

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School of Medicine in 1959 and completed his residency in psychiatry and child psychiatry at

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during 1962-1967. He did postgraduate training in psychoanalysis at the Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute 1962-1970 and received a PhD in psychoanalysis in 1971. He was psychoanalyzed by Wilfred Bion, a major figure in Kleinian psychoanalysis. Gooch then became a major proponent of the fledgling Kleinian movement in Southern California from his position as department chair at the California Graduate Institute. Gooch was a founding member of the

and its first president from 1984-1990. He continued his private psychoanalytic practice from his home in Los Angeles until shortly before his death in April 2020.

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*Obituary at the Los Angeles Time

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gooch, James American psychoanalysts American psychiatrists University of Southern California faculty Loma Linda University alumni 2020 deaths 1934 births