Obituary Notice

Jean Rhees died at her home near Cambridge on 18 May 1981, six months after she had finally retired. She was 78 years of age.

She will be greatly missed in the Society of Analytical Psychology, and most particularly in the Children's Section. She was a training analyst, and her supervisees had found her warm and supportive; she was also a good teacher and her seminars were popular and stimulating. In her younger days she had served on the various committees of the Society, including the Professional Committee, where she undertook a large amount of work, collating from the minutes the main themes that had emerged in the meetings since the earliest days of the training.

From 1965 onwards she was one of those who assisted the editors on The Journal of Analytical Psychology. She contributed several book reviews and translated two books from Italian. She was an active member of the Psychotherapy Section. Although not directly involved in the Child Analytic Training, she maintained a great interest in it and continued to attend the meetings of the Children's Section right up until the time when she left London, and she made pertinent and often unique contributions to the ongoing discussion. It could be said that she was one of the midwives who assisted in the prolonged labour of the birth of the Child Analytic Training.

Jean had been brought up in Italy and educated at the International School in Naples, She was something of a linguist, was very musical, knew a great deal about art and had read English literature at Edinburgh. Her husband is a philosopher.

Out of this wealth of personal endowment Jean chose to express herself first as a psychiatric social worker and later as an analytical psychologist. She often talked with enthusiasm and great insight about the work she had done with evacuee children in Wales during the early days of World War II. She worked for many years at the Child Guidance Training Centre where she supervised student P.S.W.s, and she was highly regarded