Camilla Bosanquet: (18^th January 1921-14^th June 2021)

At 100 years old, Camilla's death marks the passing of an era for The Society of Analytical Psychology (SAP). She was very well-loved in the Society and in her long life was witness to, and participated in, crucial transitional moments in our Society, in our profession, as well as in history. She was a remarkable woman, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother - and, of course, wife and daughter.

Camilla was the youngest of three talented sisters from a warm, successful family. With the outbreak of the war she gave up hope of a medical training and joined The Land Army. A telegram then arrived to her surprise, offering her a place at Newnham College, Cambridge, where she studied through the war and where, in her first term, she met her husband David. He was called up to the army in 1940 and they married in 1941. During The Battle of Britain, she drove a mobile canteen round the Isle of Dogs in London taking food to those in air raid shelters.

She qualified in 1942 and started her clinical training at University College Hospital, London, while David was stationed in Scotland. She was pregnant with her first child, Robin, when the buzz bombs started and she moved to Oxford to be with family, not knowing whether she would see her husband again. They were lucky.

She qualified as a doctor in 1945 and later had two more children - Joanna and Annabel. In a memoir, she wrote that while trying to find her first job in London she attended the British Medical Association meetings where doctors were ‘spitting with rage over Nye Bevan's proposal for a National Health Service’. They were apparently afraid they would be like salaried civil servants. She marched in support of the NHS and then it was not long before the idea of an NHS was accepted.

Most of us in the healing professions are aware that we are wounded healers and Camilla wrote movingly about how the pain of her own early depression after the birth of her third child - and doubtless her exper