The Society of Analytical Psychology, known also as the SAP, incorporated in London, England, in 1945 is the oldest training organisation for Jungian analysts in the United Kingdom. Its first Honorary President in 1946 was Carl Jung.[1][2] The society was established to professionalise and develop Analytical psychology in the UK by providing training to candidates, offering psychotherapy to the public through the C.G. Jung Clinic and conducting research.[3] By the mid 1970s the society had established a child-focused service and training.[4][5] The SAP is a member society of the International Association for Analytical Psychology and is regulated by the British Psychoanalytic Council.
| Society of Analytical Psychology | |
| Founders | Gerhard Adler, Hella Adler, C.M. Barker, Frieda Fordham, Michael Fordham, Philip Metman, Robert Moody and Lola Paulsen |
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| Website | https://www.thesap.org.uk |
In 1955 the society founded and continues as owner of the Journal of Analytical Psychology.[6] Its first editor was Michael Fordham.[7]
History
editThe institutional roots of analytical psychology in England go back to the 1920s with the Analytical Psychology Club (modelled on the Zurich Psychology Club (1916), descended from the Freud Society (1907)) whose leading light was Dr. H.G. Baynes, but also included members such as Drs. Mary Bell, Esther Harding, Helen Shaw and Adela Wharton.[8] The Tavistock Clinic led by Jung's friend and promoter of his thinking, Hugh Crichton-Miller, had an openness to different streams of research and thought and invited Jung to do a series of lectures in 1935, which were attended by doctors, churchmen and members of the public, including H. G. Wells and Samuel Beckett, but this was not to anchor his thinking directly in the institution.[9][10]
The professionalisation of analytical psychology needed a number of steps: in 1936 a Medical Society of Analytical Psychology was formed within the Analytical Psychology Club. Among the members was a young medical friend and analysand of Baynes, Michael Fordham.[3] Meanwhile the lay analysts convened their own group in the Club. With the influx during the 1930s of Jewish analysts of all stripes fleeing from Nazi Germany, the Jungians increased to twelve analysts. Meanwhile the Club's Medical Society formulated training standards with Jung's approval.[3] These were then presented to the Medical Section of the British Psychological Society in 1939. The Second World War brought about a hiatus in activity.[3] In 1944 Fordham proposed a Centre for Analytical Psychology. However, in 1943 the British Medical Association had begun to lay down guidelines for treatment, including for mental health in preparation for the eventual demobilisation of medical staff.[3] Added to this, analysts from the British Psychoanalytical Society (founded in 1919) also congregated in the medical section of the British Psychological Society where a rapprochement began between Freudians and Jungians.[8] There were meetings between Kleinians, Middle Group Freudians and Jungians in the 1940s all of which helped to crystallise an impetus for the latter to establish themselves in the Psychotherapy field.[8] Differences between medical and lay analysts were put aside provided the medical analysts (mostly men) supervised the lay analysts (mostly women), and a new society came into being in November 1945.[3] The founders of the SAP were Gerhard Adler, Hella Adler, Dr. C.M. Barker, Frieda and Michael Fordham, Philip Metman, Robert Moody and Lotte Paulsen.[3]
Early years
editBetween 1946 and 1953, the society grew rapidly in what has been described as the "halcyon days".[8] The presence at the Maudsley Hospital of Jung's friend and collaborator, the psychiatrist Edward Armstrong Bennet aided the recruitment of the first intake of medical trainees at the SAP in 1947. Among them were Alan Edwards, Robert Hobson, David Howell, Kenneth Lambert, Gordon Stuart Prince, Leopold Stein and Anthony Storr.[8] They were later joined by Frederick Plaut, J.W.T. Redfearn and Louis Zinkin, all of them were to go on to make a notable contribution to the field.[11][12][13]
From the beginning the SAP training was structured on clinically professional, as opposed to purely academic, lines so that personal training analysis and supervision were separate and clinical and theoretical teaching was interrelated.[8] This followed closely the model adopted by the Institute of Psychoanalysis and continues to the present day and differs markedly from the approach of the training at the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich, founded in 1948, which has a more academic emphasis.[8]
A British blend
editThe fact that Michael Fordham, the first director of training, was a child psychiatrist of a high intellectual calibre and on close professional terms with colleagues such as Donald Winnicott and Wilfred Bion along with other representatives of the Object Relations School, set the theoretical direction of the course to include a focus on (Kleinian) child development in a manner that had it tagged as the 'London School' or the 'developmental school'.[14][15][8] Analysts loyal to the Zurich approach found this to be a deviation from 'classical' (archetypal) Jungian teaching and tensions rose in the organisation.[8] The first to resign was E.A. Bennet in 1963, followed by a major split in 1976 when Gerhard Adler and several other members left to form a separate training body, the Association of Jungian Analysts, AJA, which itself was to split later on.[8] Thomas Kirsch has interpreted the divisions of that era within the SAP as the playing out of the differences between the rationalist philosophical bent of continental Europe, Jung was heavily influenced by Kant, and British Empiricism.[3][16]
Some notable members
editSee also
editReferences
edit- ^ Fordham Michael (1998). Roger Hobdell (ed.). Freud, Jung, Klein-- the Fenceless Field: Essays on Psychoanalysis and Analytical Psychology. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415186155.
- ^ Hubback, Judith (1986). "Frieda Fordham's Influence on Michael". Journal of Analytical Psychology. 31 (3): 243–246. doi:10.1111/j.1465-5922.1986.00243.x. PMID 3528104.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Kirsch, Thomas B. (2012). The Jungians: A Comparative and Historical Perspective. Routledge. p. 38. ISBN 9781134725519.
- ^ Davidson, Dorothy (1986). "The Child Analytic Training, 1960?1985: The First Quarter Century". Journal of Analytical Psychology. 31 (3): 213–222. doi:10.1111/j.1465-5922.1986.00213.x. PMID 3528102.
- ^ Midgen, Melissa Jane. (2016) The Child Analytic Tradition of the Society of Analytical Psychology – Birth, Death and Beyond. London: University of East London. (Doctoral thesis) [1]
- ^ ResearchGate journal impact
- ^ "Michael Fordham". The Society of Analytical Psychology. Retrieved 15 March 2018.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Casement, ANN (1995). "A Brief History of Jungian Splits in the United Kingdom". Journal of Analytical Psychology. 40 (3): 327–342. doi:10.1111/j.1465-5922.1995.00327.x.
- ^ Jung, C.G. (1935). Tavistock Lectures, in The Symbolic Life. Collected Works. Vol. 18. London: Routledge. pp. 1–182. ISBN 0-7100-8291-6.
- ^ Hugh Crichton-Miller, 1877-1959. A Personal Memoir by his Friends and Family, 1961. (Pp. 79+ix; illustrated. 1Os.), with a Foreword by Dr. C.G. Jung, Dorchester: Longmans (Dorchester Ltd.), Friary Press. 1961. Reviewed in Bennet, E. A. (1962). "Hugh Crichton-Miller". British Medical Journal. 1 (5280): 774. doi:10.1136/bmj.1.5280.774-a. S2CID 40099658.
- ^ Kirsch, Thomas B. (2005). "Review: Finding Fred Plaut". The San Francisco Jung Institute Library Journal. 24 (3): 35–37. doi:10.1525/jung.1.2005.24.3.35.
- ^ J.W.T. Redfearn (1992). The Exploding Self: The Creative and Destructive Nucleus of the Personality. Wilmette: Chiron.
- ^ Judith Hubback (27 March 1993). "Obituary: Louis Zinkin". The Independent. Retrieved 13 January 2020.
- ^ Fordham, M. (1944). The Life of Childhood: a Contribution to Analytical Psychology. Foreword by H. G. Baynes. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. revised as Children as Individuals, 1969.
- ^ Samuels, A. (1985). Jung and the PostJungians. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. ISBN 0-7100-9958-4.
- ^ Jung. C. G. Analytical Psychology and the English Mind and Other Papers. London: Methuen, republished as CW 18, 78.
- ^ Casement, Ann (2014). "The role played by Gerhard Adler in the development of analytical psychology internationally and in the UK". Journal of Analytical Psychology. 59 (1): 78–97. doi:10.1111/1468-5922.12056. PMID 24467354.
- ^ Frieda Fordham, obituary in The Independent, 21 January 1988
- ^ "Michael Fordham - obituary" (PDF). Psychiatric Bulletin. 19: 581–584. 1995. doi:10.1192/pb.19.9.581.
- ^ Gordon, Jill (June 2012). "Rosemary Gordon-Montagnon (1918-2012)". Journal of Analytical Psychology. 57 (3): 405–406. doi:10.1111/j.1468-5922.2012.01980.x. PMID 22724602.
- ^ Polly Young-Eisendrath; Terence Dawson, eds. (2008). The Cambridge Companion to Jung. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781139827980.
- ^ Skinner, John (22 November 1996). "Obituary. Vera von der Heydt". The Independent. Retrieved 7 June 2023.
- ^ Barbara Wharton; Jan Wiener (7 February 2006). "Obituary: Judith Hubback". The Guardian. Retrieved 29 January 2018.
- ^ Redfearn, Andy (2011). "Joseph William Thorpe Redfearn". BMJ. 343: d6931. doi:10.1136/bmj.d6931. S2CID 144030221.
- ^ Andrew Samuels (2001). Politics on the Couch: Citizenship and the Internal Life. Other Press. ISBN 978-1-892746832.
- ^ "Obituary: Anthony Storr". The Daily Telegraph. 21 March 2001. Retrieved 29 January 2018.
- ^ Hubback, Judith (22 March 1993). "Obituary: Louis Zinkin". The Independent.
Further reading
editSelected publications by Society members
Books:
- Astor, James (1995). Michael Fordham: Innovations in Analytical Psychology. Makers of modern psychotherapy. Psychology Press. ISBN 978-0-415093491.
- Cavalli, Alessandra; Hawkins, Lucinda; Stevens, Martha, eds. (2018). Transformation: Jung's Legacy and Clinical Work Today. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-429923227.
- Covington, Coline; Wharton Barbara, eds. (2015). Sabina Spielrein: Forgotten Pioneer of Psychoanalysis. London: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781315700359. ISBN 9781315700359.
- Gordon, Rosemary (1993). Bridges, Metaphor for Psychic Processes. London: Taylor and Francis. ISBN 978-1855750265.
- Hubback, Judith (2013). People Who Do Things to Each Other. United States: Chiron Publishers. ISBN 978-0-933029279.
- Knox, Jean (2010). Self-Agency in Psychotherapy: Attachment, Autonomy, and Intimacy. New York: W.W. Norton. ISBN 978-0-393706895.
- Lambert, Kenneth (1981). Analysis, Repair and Individuation. London: Academic Press.
- Redfearn, J.W.T. (1985). My Self, My Many Selves. London: Academic Press.
- Samuels, Andrew, ed. (1985). The Father: Contemporary Jungian Perspectives. London: Free Association Books. ISBN 978-0-946960-28-6.
- Schaverien, Joy (2015). Boarding School Syndrome. Routledge. ISBN 978-0415690034.
- Storr, Anthony (2005). Solitude: A Return to the Self. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-743280747.
- Wilkinson, Margaret (2006). Coming into Mind: The Mind-Brain Relationship. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-583917091.
Articles:
- Bright, George (2006). "Synchronicity as A Basis of Analytic Attitude". Journal of Analytical Psychology. 42 (4): 613–635. doi:10.1111/j.1465-5922.1997.00613.x.
- Peters, Roderick (1987). "The Eagle and the Serpent - or, The Minding of Matter". Journal of Analytical Psychology. 32 (4): 359–3816. doi:10.1111/j.1465-5922.1987.00359.x. PMID 2447054.
- Rust, Mary-Jayne (2008). "Climate on the Couch". Psychotherapy and Politics International. 6 (3): 157–170. doi:10.1002/ppi.174.
- Urban, Elizabeth (1996). "Michael Fordham, Children as Individuals, London: Free Association Books, 1994". Journal of Child Psychotherapy. 22 (1): 153–156.
- Zinkin, Louis (1987). "The Hologram as a Model for Analytical Psychology". Journal of Analytical Psychology. 32 (1): 1–21. doi:10.1111/j.1465-5922.1987.00001.x. PMID 3804852.
External links
edit- The Society of Analytical Psychology Home page
- Website of the Journal of Analytical Psychology
- History of child training by the Association of Child Psychotherapists Archived 12 January 2018 at the Wayback Machine
- The International Association for Analytical Psychology
- University of Essex Post-graduate Jungian studies
- Zurich Institute website (in English and German)