Wojtek Hańbowski – training psychoanalyst and child and adolescent psychoanalyst at the Hanna Segal Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies (ISPHS) and the Polish Psychoanalytical Society, and former President of both organisations. He is a consultant for the ISPHS Clinics in Warsaw and Kraków. He served as a member of the IPA International New Groups Committee and as Chair of the European Psychoanalytical Federation Election Committee.

In the 1980s, he worked at the Rasztów Centre for Neurosis Treatment, in Psychiatric Home Treatment, and he run the Centre for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in Warsaw. From 1993 to 1997, he lived in London, where he studied at the British Psychoanalytical Society and the Tavistock Clinic, and worked at the Cassel Hospital.

After returning to Poland, he consulted and supervised many NHS-funded mental health units, including Wards for Neurosis and Personality Disorders in Kraków, Starogard, and Międzyrzecz, as well as the Clinic for Addiction Treatment and the Adolescent Unit in Gdańsk.

The author of books: W cieniu zmarłego obiektu (In the Shadow of the Dead Object), Tożsamość psychoanalityka (The Identity of the Psychoanalyst), Wykłady z Freuda (Lectures on Freud) and Wykłady z Klein (Lectures on Klein) and co-editor of Zaklinowani czarodzieje. Psychoterapia psychoanalityczna osób uzależnionych (Stuck Magicians: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Addiction Therapy).