Morton Schatzman is an American-trained medical doctor and psychiatrist working in London as a psychotherapist.

In 1967 at the end of his psychiatry training he came to London on an elective to work with RD Laing. He had planned to return to America, but was enjoying his life in London and chose to stay.

In 1970 he co-founded the Arbours Association and the Arbours Housing Association, London-based charities set up to offer help and places to live for people in emotional distress. The first Arbours household was in his own home. Since 1994 he has been chairman of the Arbours trustees.

During his years in London he has been in the private practice of individual, couple, and family psychotherapy. His psychotherapy orientation is broad and not limited to any one school of thought. He is the author of two books Soul Murder: Persecution in the Family, published in eight countries and seven languages; and The Story of Ruth, published in four countries and three languages; and is the editor of Dreams and How to Guide Them. He has written many articles and book reviews, which have appeared in New Scientist, American Scientist, The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, The Observer, and the Independent, among other publications. He has taught in several psychotherapist training programmes. He is married and has two grown-up sons.

Outside psychiatry and psychotherapy he has a wide range of interests, which include medicine, biology, cosmology, social sciences, and literature.