ABSTRACT
Masud Khan was a fascinating man. He was a mass of splits and contradictions. At times he led a life that was remarkable for its monastic austerity and ascetic discipline, at other times he was driven to immediate gratification and romped around with the self indulgence of a wealthy playboy. Mohammed Masud Raza Khan was born in the Punjab in the home of his mother’s family in Jhelum, in pre-partition India, on 21 July 1924. He spent his first six weeks there, but he was brought up on his father’s vast feudal estates in Montgomery. Khan arrived in England and started his analysis with Ella Freeman Sharpe. The background and influences to the British Psycho-Analytical Society at that time are described in a paper by Pearl King. King was in the same year of training as Khan at the Institute. In the first year, students just had their own analysis and no lectures or seminars.
