...to recognize individuals or organizations who are making significant advances in clinical psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic research, or applied psychoanalysis.
...to regulate and register psychoanalytic institutions and practices. It will later be renamed the British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC). The BPaS is a founding member.
Ian Suttie, Tavistock psychiatrist and a critic of Freud, publishes his only book, The Origins of Love and Hate. He dies just a few weeks after it is published, at the age of only 46. His book goes on to have a tremendous influence on figures such as Fairbairn and Bowlby. He is considered today as one of the precursors of the Independent tradition.
Photo: Scan of a 1988 edition of "The Origins of Love and Hate".
Sigmund Freud dies on 25th September, after asking his friend Max Schur to end his suffering (from untreatable cancer of the jaw) by euthanizing him with a high dose of morphine. His ashes are interred in the Golders Green Crematorium in north London.
Anna Freud and Dorothy Burlingham open the Children's Rest Centre in London, later to become known as the Hampstead War Nurseries. These are foster care centres for single-parent children, evacuated children (during the Blitz), or children with no other family.
Image: Report of the Nursery 1942 from Ilse Hellman. Scanned title and intro.
1942-3
While serving as army psychiatrists at Hollymoor Hospital, Wilfred Bion and John Rickman devise what later becomes known as the ‘First Northfield Experiment’. Their attempt to create a 'leaderless' group therapy with soldier patients inspires an entire generation of post-war group therapists, especially among the Tavistock Clinic circles.
Image: Hollymoor Hospital