Loray Daws

Loray Daws is a Registered Clinical Psychologist with the Health Professions Council of South Africa and the College of Psychologists of British Columbia, Canada. Based on Vancouver Island, he works in full-time private practice as a psychoanalyst.

He is a senior faculty member at the International Masterson Institute for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in New York, a teaching faculty member and board member at ORI, assistant editor and faculty member at the Existential Psychoanalytic Institute and Society (EPIS), assistant editor of the Canadian Global Journal of Health Sciences, and an evaluator and international advisory board member of the International Journal of Psychotherapy (IJP).

Dr. Daws has published widely on psychoanalysis, daseinsanalysis, psychoanalytic psychotherapy, disorders of the self, psychosomatic difficulties, mental health ethics and the Rorschach, in journals including the International Journal of Psychotherapy, Issues in Psychoanalytic Psychology, the South African Rorschach Journal and Clinical Counselling and Contemporary Psychotherapy. He supervises and teaches internationally, with students and supervisees in South Africa, Canada, the United States, Australia and Turkey. He is the author and editor of eight books on psychoanalysis and existential analysis; his ninth, Harry Guntrip: A Contemporary Introduction, appeared in April 2026.