Obituary Notice

Janet Glynn was born in Sheffield, attained a scholarship to attend an academic secondary school, and read psychology at the University of Manchester. She worked as a remedial teacher and then as a psychotherapist while training as a child analyst at the Society of Analytical Psychology in London from 1975 to 1980. Dr Mary Coghlan, Janet's clinical director at Notre Dame Child Guidance Clinic, has written, ‘Janet's increasing skills as a therapist were valued in equal measure with her devotion to her work, her intelligence and her good humour.’ Of that time Mara Sidoli writes:

Janet was my contemporary in training and we struggled together in the early days of the Child Training. I met her at a seminar run by Michael Fordham at his office in St Katherine's Precinct. I had just arrived in London and was having great difficulties with the cultural change. Janet was immediately welcoming and open to me, and throughout the training she was always a loyal and supportive fellow student. She was a very kind-hearted person and a good human being who had not lost, in spite of the hardships that she had to endure, a childlike joy and faith in life and in her fellow human beings. She loved the children she worked with and she was extremely dedicated to her work.

At that time, Janet was at Notre Dame where she worked with very deprived and disturbed children for whom she cared deeply. She loved Winnicott's approach and often spoke of Dr Docker-Drysdale's residential home for children, as she felt that residential treatment was the only possibility to help children who felt lost and had suffered abandonment at a young age. In this way I think that she identified with these children. Her father had abandoned the family when she was a very young child and her mother, left with two young children, without financial support, had a very hard time. Janet often spoke of her love of nature, which gave her great solace. She loved Sheffield, but