The IPA establishes the International Journal of Psycho-Analysis (IJP). Ernest Jones serves as its first editor. The IJP plays an important part in the reception of psychoanalysis in the Anglo-American world, particularly in England.
Freud asks them to translate several of his works into English. In the following decades they are to become the foremost translators of Freud into English.
The Medical Section of the British Psychological Society establishes the British Journal of Medical psychology, under the editorship of T.W. Mitchell.
The psychoanalyst and educator, Susan Isaacs is appointed as the first Manager of the progressive Malting House School at Cambridge, which was known to be guided by psychoanalytic ideas. It was one of a few 1920s progressive schools, such as Summerhill and Beacon Hill School, which their founders argued to be influenced by psychoanalytic principles.
Photo: Jones writes to Freud about the Klein lectures.
Ernest Jones helps Max Eitingon in Berlin to establish the International Training Committee. The committee’s main task is to create international guidelines for the training of new candidates. Their main problem is about whether they should let in ‘lay analysts’ (analysts with no medical training), as Freud and Ferenczi suggest, or not, as several members of the American and German societies argue. The British Society has many lay analysts, but officially Jones objects to its formal legalization.
Photo: Congress Training Committee report, 1932. Even though it is a long time after the original committee, this is the culmination of the work of the committee, i.e. the guidelines they set out to provide.
The Journal publishes a public debate on ‘lay analysis’, where all major psychoanalytic figures and institutions can present their views on the topic.
Sándor Ferenczi and his wife Gizella visit the Society in London.
Many of the English psychoanalysts such as Eder, Estelle Cole and Samuel William Inman are excited to see their former training-analyst. Melanie Klein is less enthusiastic, she and Ferenczi having become somewhat estranged. Ferenczi later remarks in a letter to Freud how big an impact Klein has had on the British Society.
Photo: Letter from Rickman to Ferenczi re: arrangements for trip.
