ABSTRACT

In 1913 Ernest Jones founded the London Psycho-Analytical Society. It soon fell into a Freudian–Jungian schism. Jones solved the problem by dissolving the London Society and starting another in 1919, which he called the British Psychoanalytical Society. The success of a few brave psychoanalysts in being prime movers starting high-quality psychotherapy training schools in Scotland, Newcastle, Belfast, and Birmingham suggests that the sociability of psychoanalysts really can bear fruit. Some simple statistics mixed with some personal narratives show something of what has happened. Around 1993 another child psychotherapist moved to the Wirral and another came up weekly from London. The work of getting Liverpool established as a satellite centre to the joint Tavi/UEL MA course involved an enormous amount of work by people in London and Liverpool.