Eder, (Montague) David (1865–1936), psychoanalyst, was born on 12 August 1865 at 19 Euston Square, London, the eldest of the four children of David Martin Eder, shipping merchant, and his second wife, Esther Burnstein, formerly Soloman. His parents were both Jewish. Eder was educated in ...
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Freud, Sigmund (1856–1939), founder of psychoanalysis, was born on 6 May 1856 at Freiberg, Moravia, in the Austro-Hungarian empire (later Príbor, Czech republic), the first of the seven surviving children of Jacob Freud (1815–1896), wool trader, and his second wife, Amalie (1835–1931)...
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Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) by Max Halberstadt, 1921 Mary Evans Picture Library / Freud copyrights
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Glover, Edward George (1888–1972), psychoanalyst, was born on 13 January 1888 at Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire, the third son of Matthew Glover, a country schoolmaster, and Elizabeth Smith Shanks, who was of a farming family. His eldest brother, James, who died early, in 1927, was regarded as the genius of the family, taking after his father, whereas ...
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Susan Sutherland Isaacs (1885–1948) by Enoch Fairhurst, 1935 © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Isaacs [née Fairhurst], Susan Sutherland (1885–1948), educational psychologist and psychoanalyst, was born on 24 May 1885, at 32 Bradshaw Brow, Turton, Bolton, Lancashire, the seventh of eight children of William Fairhurst, journalist and Methodist lay preacher, and his wife, Miriam Sutherland. Fairhurst's...
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(Alfred) Ernest Jones (1879–1958) by James Russell & Sons courtesy of the British Psychoanalytical Society
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Jones, (Alfred) Ernest (1879–1958), neurologist and psychoanalyst, was born on 1 January 1879 at Ffos-felin (renamed Gowerton), near Swansea, Glamorgan, the son of Thomas Jones (1853–1922), then a colliery manager and later a colliery proprietor, and his wife, Mary Ann Lewis (1855–1909)...
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Main, Thomas Forrest (1911–1990), psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, was born on 25 February 1911 in Johannesburg, Transvaal, to James Robert Main (1872–1946), shipwright and later mine manager, and Jessie Miller Dundas (1876–1965). Main was one of three children; a fourth died in adolescence. His father joined the ...
