P19-D - British Psychoanalytical Society


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P19-D

Date Range1929 - 1949 (some items undated)
Quantity5 files
ProvenanceIsaacs, Susan Sutherland (1885-1948) educationalist and psychoanalyst
Description

Level of description: Series
Language of materials: English

Papers related to Susan Isaacs' activities within the British Psychoanalytical Society, particularly during the Controversial Discussions in the 1940s.

Previous codes

CIB/F01, CIB/F02, CIB/F03, G09/BA/F03

ArrangedChronological order

Inventory Listing

P19-D-01 Symposium of analysis and education

Level of description: File
Language of materials: English

Papers related to a report by the Education Sub-Committee which was presented at the 1929 Oxford Congress. Included are introductory notes, abstracts of the report and a photocopy of the second part of the report, entitled 'The analytic education of the pedagogue'. (The photocopy has been recopied on to archival quality paper).

Creator Isaacs, Susan Sutherland (1885-1948) educationalist and psychoanalyst
Control G09/BA/F03/50
Date range 1929    Quantity 3 items
Inventory Identifier P19-D-01 Box Number 080 Series P19-D
P19-D-02 Controversial Discussions

Level of description: File
Language of materials: English

Drafts of contributions to the Extraordinary Business Meetings held during the Controversial Discussions.

Creator Isaacs, Susan Sutherland (1885-1948) educationalist and psychoanalyst
Control CIB/F02
Date range 1942 - 1943    Quantity 1 file
Inventory Identifier P19-D-02 Box Number 080 Series P19-D
P19-D-03 Correspondence with Melanie Klein

Level of description: File
Language of materials: English

Correspondence, mostly letters from Klein to Isaacs, regarding their collaborative work and discussing matters of the British Psychoanalytical Society during the Controversial Discussions. The letters enclose occasional correspondence with other members of the Society, including Marjorie Brierley, Sylvia Payne, Joan Riviere, John Rickman and Helen Sheehan-Dare. Also included are notes for a meeting of the British Psychoanalytical Society, Klein's comments on Isaacs' paper on phantasy and an annotated list suggesting the allegiance of various members of the Society to those involved in the discussions.

Creator Isaacs, Susan Sutherland (1885-1948) educationalist and psychoanalyst
Control CIB/F01
Date range 1942 - 1943 (Jan-Jul 1942; Mar-Jun 1943; eight items undated)    Quantity 1 file
Inventory Identifier P19-D-03 Box Number 080 Series P19-D
P19-D-04 Care of Children Committee

Level of description: File
Language of materials: English

Memorandum by Susan Isaacs on the care of children in institutions and foster homes, as well as a transcript of a meeting of the Care of Children Committee held at the Home Office on 28 Aug 1945, at which Susan Isaacs represented the London Clinic of Psychoanalysis.

Creator Isaacs, Susan Sutherland (1885-1948) educationalist and psychoanalyst
Date range 1945    Quantity 2 items
Inventory Identifier P19-D-04 Box Number 080 Series P19-D
P19-D-05 Letters from various analysts

Level of description: File
Language of materials: English

One letter from Melanie Klein (1945) and two from Joan Riviere (1948 and undated), commenting on papers by Isaacs, as well as one from Sylvia Payne (1945) apparently declining to comment on a manuscript and stressing the need for co-operation regardless of theoretical standpoints. Also one letter each (both undated) from Ernest Jones and Adrian Stephen, granting Isaacs permission to quote them.

Also included is a circular letter (1945) seeking the repayment of loans made to emigres by the British Psychoanalytical Society, in order to raise funds to assist colleagues in Europe following the Second World War, and a copy of a letter to The Times (1949) seeking contributions to the Susan Isaacs Memorial Fund.

Creator Isaacs, Susan Sutherland (1885-1948) educationalist and psychoanalyst
Control CIB/F03
Date range 1945 - 1949 (three items undated)    Quantity 1 file
Inventory Identifier P19-D-05 Box Number 080 Series P19-D

Published by the Archives of the British Psychoanalytical Society,
With support from The Wellcome Trust
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