Dr Brian Gutkin is a consultant psychiatrist and psychotherapist in private practice at St Leonards, Sydney. He is immediate past President of The Australian Association of Buddhist Counsellors and Psychotherapists, a lecturer, trainer and supervisor in their post-graduate training course and is also a longstanding Zen practitioner. As well as consulting in his private practice in St Leonards Brian was also a senior clinician and director of psychiatry for over fifteen years at South Pacific Private Harbord.