 Nina Coltart (1927-1997) was the Director of the London Clinic of Psychoanalysis, a neo-Freudian and a Buddhist.She theorized that there are distinct similarities in the transformation of the self that occurs in both psychoanalysis and Buddhism.She believed that the practice of Buddhism and Psychoanalysis where "mutually reinforcing and clarifying" (Coltart, "The practice of psychoanalysis and Buddhism").