David Bell is a training analyst, supervisor and ex-president of the British Psychoanalytic Society; psychiatrist, leading specialist at the Tavistock Clinic (London). Working in the tradition of Freud, Klein and Bion, D. Bell has made a significant contribution to the development of psychoanalytic theory and practice. He has numerous publications in the field of clinical psychoanalysis. His original ideas on the application of the psychoanalytic approach to the study of the phenomena of art, literature and philosophy are of considerable value for the practice and theory of psychoanalysis.