Abse, Leo
ABSE, Leo
ABSE, Leo. British, b. 1917. Genres: Politics/Government, Psychology. Career: Cardiff City Labour Party, Cardiff, Wales, chairman, 1951-53; Cardiff City Council, Cardiff, member, 1953-58; British Parliament, London, England, Labour member for Pontypool, 1958-83, and for Torfaen, 1983-87; Welsh Parliamentary Party, chair, 1976-87; Winnicott Clinic of Psychotherapy, chairman, 1988-. Senior partner of a law firm in Cardiff, Wales. Member of Home Office Advisory Committees on the Penal System, 1968, and on Adoption, 1972; member of Select Committee on Abortion, 1975-76; first chair, Select Committee on Welsh Affairs, 1980; secretary of British-Taiwan Parliamentary Group, 1983-87; chair of Parliamentary Friends of the Welsh National Opera, 1985-87. Vice-President, Institute for the Study and Treatment of Delinquency, 1964-. University of Wales, member of court, 1981-87; University of California, regents lecturer, 1984. Publications: Private Member: A Psychoanalytically Orientated Study of Contemporary Politics, 1973; Margaret, Daughter of Beatrice: A Psychobiography of Margaret Thatcher, 1989; Wotan, My Enemy: Can Britain Live with the Germans?, 1994; The Man behind the Smile: The Politics of Perversion, 1996; Fellatio, Masochism, Politics & Love, 2000; Tony Blair: The Man Who Lost His Smile, 2003. Address: 54 Strand-on-the-Green, London W4 3PD, England.