Michael Fordham

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Michael Fordham
Michael Fordham
Born	4 August 1905 Kensington, London
Died	14 April 1995
Nationality	English

Michael Scott Montague Fordham (born 4 August 1905, Kensington, London, died 14 April 1995) was an English psychiatrist, a Jungian analyst. The Michael Fordham Prize is named in his honour.

1 Background and education
2 Career summary
3 Publications
4 Family
5 References
6 External Links

[edit] Background and education

The second son of Montague Edward Fordham and his wife Sara Gertrude Worthington, Fordham was educated at Gresham's School, Holt, Norfolk (1918-1923), Trinity College, Cambridge (1924-1927), and St Bartholomew's Hospital (1927-1932). He took the degrees of MB and BCh in 1931, and became an MRCP in 1932.

[edit] Career summary

1932: Junior Medical Officer, Long Grove Mental Hospital, Epsom
1933: Begins to read Jung
1934: Fellow in Child Psychiatry, London Child Guidance Clinic
1934-1936: in analysis with H. G. Baynes
1934: visits Zurich to meet Jung, intending to train with him
1935-1936: Spends a year as a General Practitioner in Barking
1936: in analysis with Hilde Kirsch
1936: part-time consultant at child guidance clinic in Nottingham
1942: Consultant psychiatrist to evacuated children in Nottingham area
1945: appointed co-editor of English translation of C. G. Jung's Collected Works
1946: a founder of the Society of Analytical Psychology
1946: Consultant to the Child Guidance Clinic at the West End Hospital for Nervous Diseases, London
1947: Degree of MD
1971: Founder Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatry
1970s: Working at the Tavistock Clinic on mother-child observations

[edit] Publications

The Life of Childhood (1944)
New Developments in Analytical Psychology (1957)
The Objective Psyche (1958)
Children as Individuals (1969, revised from The Life of Childhood)
The Self and Autism (1976)
The Making of an Analyst: a memoir (London: Free Association Books, 1993)

From 1945, Fordham was co-editor of the English translation of C. G. Jung's Collected Works.

From 1955 to 1970 he was editor of the Journal of Analytical Psychology

[edit] Family

In 1928, Fordham married Molly Swabey, and their son Max was born in 1933. In 1940, his marriage was dissolved and he married secondly Frieda Hoyle, who died in 1987.

[edit] References

The Making of an Analyst: a memoir by Michael Fordham (London, Free Association Books, 1993)
Obituary Notice of Michael Fordham in Journal of Analytical Psychology, volume 40, No. 3, pp. 430-431
Obituary in The Independent, 25 April, 1995
“Michael Fordham (1905-1995).”, The Journal of analytical psychology 40 (3): 418-34, 1995, 1995 Jul, PMID:7649848, <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7649848>
Hobdell, R (1986), “A bibliography of the writings of Michael Fordham.”, The Journal of analytical psychology 31 (3): 307-15, 1986 Jul, PMID:3528105, <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3528105>
Hubback, J (1986), “Frieda Fordham's influence on Michael.”, The Journal of analytical psychology 31 (3): 243-6, 1986 Jul, PMID:3528104, <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3528104>
Hubback, J (1986), “Fordham the clinician as seen in his writings.”, The Journal of analytical psychology 31 (3): 235-42, 1986 Jul, PMID:3528103, <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3528103>
“Michael Fordham re-viewed.”, The Journal of analytical psychology 31 (3): 195-315, 1986, 1986 Jul, PMID:3528101, <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3528101>