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British psychoanalysis has had a distinguished history. Ernest Jones, for all his many flaws, deserves the credit for making a functioning organization of analysts in Britain. Of course, that meant also that sometimes Jones kept out brilliant people whom he disliked, especially men with medical degrees; he felt far more at home with female physicians and lay analysts. Jones was also stuck with the fact that many of those interested in Freud's work were Cambridge intellectuals; once Freud had accepted people like James and Alix Strachey for personal analyses, Jones could do nothing to block them from becoming full members of his society. Jones, a Welsh outsider, might envy superior social connections, but he was a good-enough politician to ride out his many practical problems.
Never in British psychoanalysis has there been, however, anything like the scandal now associated with Masud Khan. Once a figure at the pinnacle of power, trusted and respected not only in Britain but throughout the world of official orthodox psychoanalysis, Khan ended up being defrocked. His final crime was not that of behaving in an admittedly sexually improper way with a patient, but for publishing anti-Semitic remarks. The details of his fall from grace are a story that may interest some; my job now is to review this fascinating book by one of his former patients, who was in analysis with him between the years 1967 and 1973.