title: 1919: psychology and psychoanalysis, Cambridge and London - Myers, Jones and MacCurdy.
abstract: Viewing the reception of psychoanalysis in Britain from Cambridge, the paper examines the intertwining histories of the post-War British Psychological Society and the founding of the British Psycho-Analytical Society, following the initiatives of the two principal psychological entrepreneurs of the era, Charles Myers and Ernest Jones, Reforms in Cambridge in which psychoanalysis played a significant part are analysed, including the foundation of a Clinic for Nervous Diseases and the establishment of a separate Department of Experimental Psychology. The career of J. T. MacCurdy, Jones's student and Lecturer in Psychopathology at Cambridge, is discussed.
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Forrester
mesh_terms: D015709:Correspondence as Topic / Q000266:history; D004739:England / Q000208:ethnology; D005619:Freudian Theory / Q000266:history; D049673:History, 20th Century; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011572:Psychoanalysis / Q000193:education / Q000266:history; D011584:Psychology / Q000193:education / Q000266:history; D012106:Research / Q000193:education / Q000266:history; D014495:Universities / Q000266:history