James Gooch (psychoanalyst)

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

Gooch received his MD from Loma Linda University School of Medicine in 1959 and completed his residency in psychiatry and child psychiatry at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center 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.^[2] Gooch was a founding member of the Psychoanalytic Center of California 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.^[3]

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