I have known Dr. Aurelia Ionescu for 10 years. I first met her at Hyperion University in Bucharest where, together with some colleagues, I started to organise her workshops. She held many workshops in Romania where she gave lectures to psychologists, psychotherapists and students bringing the concepts of the British kleinian psychoanalysis to them. We all admired her so much. She was a powerful model for us.

She was the model of a very dedicated psychoanalyst, very committed to her clinical work. She didn't write books, she didn't lead academic teams, but she was involved full-time with her work in the consulting room.

She was also the model of a patriotic person, strongly bounded to the Romanian culture yet living in diaspora. She had a lovely voice for singing Romanian folk songs. She was very fond of the national spirit expressed in the poetry, music and folklore of her home country.

She was also the model of a good mother, struggling to get used to living in a foreign country, to build a new life and still support her children, by herself.

And she was the model of a woman. We were always looking at her how she was dressed, how she spoke... Such a well-presented woman, she showed us how to be lady-like at all times...

For all of this, we are happy and grateful to have met her.

We'll always miss you, Aurelia. May Jesus the Lord have you in his embrace!

Georgiana Branisteanu,

CPsychol, British Psychological Society