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John sutherland, a member of the editorial board of Psychoanalytic Dialogues, died on June 14, 1991, at the age of 86.
Jock, as he was affectionately known, was a psychoanalyst, an editor, a scholar, and an administrator of rare excellence. For his work as Medical Director of the Tavistock Clinic in London, a post he held from 1967 until his retirement in 1968, he was awarded the Commander of the British Empire (C.B.E.), an honor given to only two other psychoanalysts, John Bowlby and Anna Freud. In his retirement, he helped establish the Scottish Institute of Human Relations, a psychoanalytic training program and clinic infused with Dr. Sutherland's vision of applying psychoanalytic knowledge to a wide range of endeavors.
From 1949 to 1959 he was Editor of the British Journal of Medical Psychology and, from 1959 to 1968, Editor of The International Journal of Psycho-Analysis.
For the last 30 years, Dr. Sutherland was an annual visiting professor to the Menninger Foundation, where he presented his classic paper “Object Relations Theory and Conceptual Model of Psychoanalysis.” Interest in object relations theory in the United States and, in particular, in the work of W.R.D. Fairbairn, was unquestionably due to Jock's influence. In 1989, he published the first book on the life and work of Fairbairn—Fairbairn's Journey into the Interior.
I had the great pleasure of hosting Jock Sutherland's visit to the Society of the Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy in New York in October of 1989. He was an elegant, humane man, infused with a great sense of humor, joyful, devilish, and peaceful at the same time.