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Frances Smart, professional member of the Society of Analytical Psychology and member of the Society for Graduates of the C. G. Jung Institute, died at the age of 58 on 10 April 1968.
After qualifying in medicine she soon settled to working in general practice. There she gradually became interested in psychotherapy and in the unconscious processes that underlie human suffering. She decided to go out to Zürich and in 1951 was the first to receive the diploma of the C. G. Jung Institute.
When she returned to England she joined the Society of Analytical Psychology and was for some time its assistant secretary. In addition she held several appointments in hospitals and clinics: first at Bowden House, then at the Metropolitan Hospital and the Paddington Clinic and Day Hospital. In 1957 she became visiting psychotherapist at Wormwood Scrubs prison.
Her interests were in her personal professional work, which had a devotional, even religious, character about it, as her contribution to a symposium on ‘Jung's greatest contribution’ ( Harvest, 1965, 11) arranged by the Analytical Psychology Club, of which she was chairman between 1962 and 1964, shows very clearly. Though her scientific contribution was small she gave an account of her work in Wormwood Scrubs (published in Harvest, 1967, 13), showing how she applied sensitively and perceptively her skills to helping the selected group of criminals sent to her for psychotherapy. It is a warm and well-organized account and one regretted that her modest and introverting nature had not permitted her to express herself more in public.