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.

Link to discussion on Lay Analysis: PEP-Web

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.

Link to a video of the 1929 Congress 

After reading Freud, W.H. R. Rivers, army psychiatrist at the Craiglockhart War Hospital, Edinburgh, begins using the ‘talking cure’ to treat shell-shocked patients. His most famous patient, the poet Siegfried Sassoon, will become one of the most famous cases in the history of psychoanalysis in Britain, as well as an archetype of the WWI shell-shocked soldier.

Image: Original manuscript of Sassoon's poem "Dulce et Decorum Est" 

After the First World War, several British analysts move to the major psychoanalytic centres in Vienna, Budapest and Berlin to be trained by the preeminent analysts of the period, including Sigmund Freud, Sándor Ferenczi and Karl Abraham. Joan Riviere travels to Vienna to be analysed by Freud. Riviere, who has already translated several of Freud's works before meeting him, goes on to become a major translator of his work into English. She also edits the first Collected Papers of Freud in English, published in 1924.

Picture: Joan Riviere