You do not currently have permission to view the full text for this document. Please sign in to an account with an active subscription or contact support.
Murray Jackson, a Fellow of The British Psychoanalytical Society and a former member of the Society of Analytical Psychology, died peacefully on 4th July 2011, at home in St André-de-Roquepertuis, southern France, a part of the world he had come to know well since retiring there twenty years ago after a long and distinguished career as a Consultant Psychiatrist at the Maudsley Hospital, a psychoanalyst in private practice and a Life Member of ISPS (International Society for the Psychological Treatment of Schizophrenia and other Psychoses). His death marks the passing of an increasingly rare kind of individual capable of extended, meaningful conversation with psychotic patients, a psychoanalytic skill largely unseen in western psychiatry today and no longer taught.
Murray was born in Australia, a ‘Bondi Beach boy’ as he referred to himself, to a soldier and diplomat father and distinguished journalist mother, and after attending Cranbrook School in Sydney he entered the University of Sydney to study medicine, graduating in 1945. He served as a doctor in the Australian Army of Occupation in Japan after the war and came to the UK in 1947, primarily to do his MRCP and then decided on psychiatry and the Maudsley Hospital. This was the hey-day of the contribution of psychoanalysis to psychosomatics: Murray was drawn to the work of George Engel and John Romano at the Rochester School of Medicine and of Franz Alexander in Chicago. He worked at the Maudsley and Kings College Hospital up until his retirement, seeing patients, teaching nurses and doctors and pursuing his lifelong interest in psychological factors contributing to certain physical illnesses, in