... by Jessie Murray and Julia Turner. In 1915 the two go on to initiate a new training programme in psychotherapy. Until its closure in 1922 it serves as a pioneering therapeutic clinic, where several future leading psychoanalysts, such as Susan Isaacs, Sylvia Payne, James Glover, Marjorie Brierley, and Ella Freeman Sharpe, acquire their initial training and professional experience.
Scottish psychiatrist Hugh Crichton-Miller establishes the psychoanalytically oriented Tavistock Clinic, following his experience treating shell-shocked soldiers. The new clinic aims to provide treatment to people on low incomes.
Alix Strachey goes to Berlin for a second analysis with Karl Abraham. There she becomes friends with Austrian-born Melanie Klein, and grows acquainted with her ideas on child psychoanalysis. Strachey introduces Klein to Ernest Jones and other members of the British Society.
The Cambridge Psychoanalytic Group is established. It contains well-known figures of the Cambridge natural scientific community: Arthur Tansley, Harold Jeffreys, Lionel Penrose, Frank Ramsey, James Strachey and John Rickman. The discussion group is one manifestation of the strong connection between psychoanalysis and certain members of the Cambridge academic circle.
Ernest Jones organises a two-day "Symposium on Child-Analysis', which is published the year after by the Journal. The harsh critique of participants of Anna Freud’s book, Introduction to the Technique of Child Analysis, makes Freud to accuse Jones that it was organized intentionally for attacking his daughter.
David Eder – described by Freud as ‘the first practicing psychoanalyst in England’ – gives the first psychoanalytic paper ever in the British Medical Association.
Freud becomes an honorary member of the Society for Psychical Research (SPR), based in Cambridge. The year after he contributes to the Proceedings of the SPR his paper, ‘A Note on the Unconscious in Psycho-Analysis’.
Returning to London after several years in Canada, having been accused of inappropriate treatment of child patients, Ernest Jones plans to establish a Psychoanalytic Society. In the same year he publishes an influential collection of his work, Papers on Psycho-analysis, arguably the first British psychoanalytic publication.
On 30th October, Ernest Jones establishes the London Psycho-Analytical Society. Initially there are fifteen members: Douglas Bryan (Leicester), Dr. Davidson (Toronto), Dr. Devine (Yorkshire), M. D. Eder (London), Dr. Forsyth (London), Dr. Graham (Belfast), Bernard Hart (London), Captain Berkeley Hill (Bombay), Ernest Jones (President) (London), Constance Long (London), Leslie Mackenzie (Edinburgh), Maurice Nicoll (London), Colonel Sutherland (Jubbalpore, India), H. Watson Smith (Beirut), and Maurice Wright (London).
Many of these founding members live a long way from London and are unable to play an active part.
Picture: Ernest Jones's diary dated October 1913.
Jones disbands the London Psycho-Analytical Society due to disagreements with several Jungian members, and forms instead the British Psycho-Analytical Society. Until 1920 there are 16 Members and 14 Associate Members (including a major in Melbourne).