Peter Leviné obituary

My friend Peter Leviné, who has died aged 78, was a psychotherapist of great compassion, who valued independent judgment over orthodoxy.Peter’s commitment to a progressive and rational humanism was deeply influenced by his mother, Doreen Byrne (known as Bill), who at one stage ran a children’s home for teenage girls, and his father, Eugene (Genia) Leviné, a refugee from 1930s Germany who settled as a biology lecturer in London, where Peter was born. His Russian Communis