Neville Symington is a British psychoanalyst and author. He studied philosophy at Cambridge in the 1960s and then started doing research in psychoanalysis. He has written a number of books, including The Foundations of Psychoanalysis, which explore how to live a healthy and fulfilling life. He believes that understanding and accepting our emotions is a key factor in our mental health, and he has been a major influence in psychoanalytic thinking around the world. In other words, he has studied how people think and feel, and he's written about it so that people can learn about themselves and how to make their lives better.