British Psychoanalytical Society
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The British Psychoanalytical Society was founded by Ernest Jones as the London Psychoanalytical Society on 30 October 1913. It is one of two organisations in Britain training psychoanalysts, the other being the British Psychoanalytic Association.
Freud and the members of the Inner Circle, including Ernest Jones.
Sigmund Freud fled Austria in 1938, settling in Hampstead, London. He never formally joined the society, but his close friendship with Ernest Jones, and the sudden influx of continental analysts due to the rise of the Nazi Party, meant that the status of the society was greatly enhanced during the Interwar period.
James Strachey, one of the leaders of the scientific committee
William Leslie Mackenzie, a founding member of the Society.
Ernest Jones
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Alfred Ernest Jones was a Welsh neurologist and psychoanalyst. A lifelong friend and colleague of Sigmund Freud from their first meeting in 1908, he became his official biographer. Jones was the first English-speaking practitioner of psychoanalysis and became its leading exponent in the English-speaking world. As President of both the International Psychoanalytical Association and the British Psycho-Analytical Society in the 1920s and 1930s, Jones exercised a formative influence in the establishment of their organisations, institutions and publications.
Ernest Jones
Group photo 1909 in front of Clark University. Front row: Sigmund Freud, G. Stanley Hall, Carl Jung; back row: Abraham A. Brill, Ernest Jones, Sándor Ferenczi
The "Committee", 1922. Left to right, seated: Sigmund Freud, Sándor Ferenczi, and Hanns Sachs. Standing; Otto Rank, Karl Abraham, Max Eitingon, and Ernest Jones.
Jones’ grave in the churchyard of St Cadoc's Cheriton on the Gower Peninsula