Henry Gabriel

Henry Gabriel is a playwright, novelist and essayist, and native of Glasgow. He has had several of his plays produced at the Edinburgh Festival, the Pitlochry Festival Theatre, the Glasgow Citizens, and in London.

His first novel The Inner Case was published in 1989 and was acclaimed as the Book of the Week in the Scottish Sunday Post, Scotland’s largest Sunday newspaper.

His book of philosophical essays, Forward To Methuselah and a detective satire, Masks Of Eros were published respectively in 1996 and 1997.

In 2004-5, The Historical Mission Of Evil was published, a psychoanalytic perspective on the historical origin of evil. Henry presented a paper from this book at the 5th Annual Conference on Evil and Human Wickedness in Prague, 2004.

Henry has recently completed a full length play entitled After Day Breaks, in which the characters are Sigmund Freud; Anna Freud; Albert Einstein; Immanuel Velikovsky and Arnold Zweig.

One of his articles, ‘The Intuitions of Freud,’ was published in the European Journal of Psychoanalysis.