ABSTRACT
When Ernest Jones set about establishing psychoanalysis in Britain, two intertwining tasks faced him: establishing the reputation of psychoanalysis as a respectable pursuit and defining an identity for it as a discipline, distinct from but related to cognate disciplines. London showed a growing interest in unconscious phenomena and abnormal psychology. The British Psychological Society, which had been formed in 1901, was too broad-based, even though in Cambridge C. S. Myers, and in his own way W. H. Rivers, were shifting the focus of academic psychology towards clinical psychology. Founded less than a year before Britain entered the First World War, the London Psycho-Analytical Society's future trajectory could not but be affected by the war. Leo Rangell has argued that in effect Anna Freud removed Freudian child analysis from the British Society, locating it at the Hampstead Clinic, and handed child analysis within the Society to the Kleinians.
