Correspondence

I READ MICHAEL FORDHAM's article, ‘Analytical psychology in England’ (this  Journal, October 1979, Vol.  24, 4) with particular interest, since my supervisor, H. G. Baynes, had told me in 1939 that I was the first trainee of a society which, at that time, was not really in actual outer existence. When the Society of Analytical Psychology was formally constituted some years later, I was offered associate professional membership, which I accepted more than a decade later when I resigned my medical directorship of the Edinburgh Davidson Clinic to return to London in 1957.

It is in connection with my long association with Scotland, most and formemost with the Davidson Clinic in Edinburgh, but also with its sister clinic in Glasgow, and, to a lesser extent, with the Scottish section of the British Psychological Society, that I should like to add a few paragraphs about analytical psychology in that country. When I arrived in Scotland in 1943 there were, so far as I know, only Karl Abenheimer in Glasgow and Florida Scott-Maxwell in Edinburgh (on the staff of the Davidson Clinic) who regarded themselves as followers of C. G. Jung. Abenheimer's contributions to analytical psychology are well-known and, to some extent, foreshadowed the London school's subsequent development. Florida Scott-Maxwell, a devoted pupil of H. G. Baynes, on the other hand, remained until the end of her long life wholly Zürich orientated.

When the Clinic's board of governors and the hon. medical director, Dr Winifred Rushford, appointed me it was for the express purpose of strengthening the Jungian side of the work, as its general tendency, since its quite recent beginnings, had been mostly psychoanalytical. Apart from my therapeutic duties, my assignments included lectures and seminars to the staff, extra-mural teaching of Jungian psychology, contact with the University Psychiatric Unit, and scores of public lectures in the city.

I found the close association with Freudian-orientated c