George Ikkos is Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust UK, and Clinical Fellow of the international Neuropsychoanalysis Association (NPSA). He was the first president of the Pain Medicine Section and President of the Psychiatry Section of the Royal Society of Medicine. George studied psychology at the University of Toronto, qualified as Group Analytic Psychotherapist at the Institute of Group Analysis (London) and was medical advisor to the Scotsman Fringe First award-winning play “The Shape of the Pain”. He has published on pain, liaison psychiatry, psychiatric training and psychosomatic, psychodynamic, interpersonal, and social aspects of psychiatry. He has coedited two books. Psychiatry’s Contract with Society: Concepts, Controversies and Consequences (2010) (Bhugra, D., Malik, A., Ikkos, G. eds) and Mind State and Society: A Social History of UK Psychiatry and Mental Health 1960-2010 (2021, available open access) which received the runner up award in the History of Science Technology and Medicine section of the 2021 Annual PROSER Awards by the Society of American Publishers.