Val Richards obituary

My wife, Val Richards, who has died aged 84, was a scholar, teacher and analytical psychotherapist.

Val was born in Whetstone, north London, to Charles Feldman, an accountant, and his wife, Ivy (nee Blaker), a teacher, and attended Woodhouse school in North Finchley. Her youth, which she spent in London, was marred by the second world war; from her early years Val was a campaigner for peace, and she later became a prominent member of CND.