Foi professor de ciência política e social na Universidade de York, em Toronto, Canadá. Publicou, entre outros, Meeting Freud's Family, Freud: Political and Social Thought, Encountering Freud: The Politics and Histories of Psychoanalysis, Erik H. Erikson: The Power and Limits of a Vision, Helene Deutsch: A Psychoanalyst's Life, Canada's King: An Essay in Political Psychology, Oedipus in Britain : Edward Glover and the Struggle over Klein, The Historiography of Psychoanalysis. Morreu em 2005.