Mary Chadwick Explained

Mary Chadwick (died 1943) was a British nurse and psychoanalyst, characterised by Edward Glover as "the founder of child-analysis in Britain".[1] A friend of the poet H.D., she analysed their work in 1931.[2]

Life

Chadwick was introduced to psychotherapy by the Medico-Psychological Clinic,[3] receiving her first analysis there from Julia Turner.[4] She delivered a paper on child analysis to the inaugural British Psychoanalytic Society meeting in 1919.[5] In 1920 she accompanied James Strachey, Edward Glover and Ella Freeman Sharpe to Berlin, where she underwent analysis with Hanns Sachs.[6] She started seeing children in therapy in 1922,[7] and became an Associate Member of the BPAS in 1923.[8]

In the mid-1920s Chadwick wrote a pair of essays on the sexual motivations underlying curiosity, characterising the male will to know as envious of the female ability to give birth. Her argument here influenced Melanie Klein,[9] who later also reviewed Chadwick's book on menstruation.[10]

In 1930 Chadwick befriended the poet H.D., the novelist Bryher and the filmmaker Kenneth Macpherson.[2] H.D., Bryher and MacPherson collaborated in film production as the Pool Group,[11] and Chadwick wrote for their magazine, Close Up, in 1931.[12] Bryher paid for both Kenneth Macpherson and H.D. to go into analysis with Chadwick.[11] H.D. saw Chadwick for 24 sessions, from April to July 1931, before ending analysis abruptly. She found Chadwick's mixing of analysis and friendship distressing, and seems to have associated her with 'sadism'. By comparison with Hanns Sachs, with whom H.D. entered analysis at the end of the year, H.D. also felt Chadwick was hampered by an English moralism:

Chadwick died suddenly in May 1943.[8]

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Edward Glover. The Roots of Crime. Selected Papers on Psycho-analysis, Vol. 2. 1960. Imago Publishing Company. 42.
  2. Book: Susan Stanford Friedman. Analyzing Freud: Letters of H.D., Bryher, and Their Circle. 2002. New Directions Publishing. 978-0-8112-1603-6. 552–3.
  3. Book: Alain de Mijolla. International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis. 2005. Thomson-Gale. 696.
  4. Book: Laura Marcus. Alexander. S. Taylor. B.. History and Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis, and the Past. 2012. Palgrave Macmillan US. 978-1-137-09242-7. 142. European Witness: Analysands Abroad in the 1920s and 1930s.
  5. Book: Sally Alexander. Ffytche. Matt. Pick. Daniel. Psychoanalysis in the Age of Totalitarianism. 2016. Routledge. 978-1-317-64317-3. 197. D. W. Winnicott and the social democratic vision.
  6. [Lawrence Kubie]
  7. Book: Gregorio Kohon. Gregorio Kohon. British Psychoanalysis: New Perspectives in the Independent Tradition. 2017. Taylor & Francis. 978-1-351-26286-6. 43. Notes on the History of the Psychoanalytic Movement in Great Britain.
  8. Book: Pearl King. Riccardo Steiner. The Freud-Klein Controversies, 1941–45. 1992. Psychology Press. 978-0-415-08274-7. 360.
  9. Book: Steven Connor. The Madness of Knowledge: On Wisdom, Ignorance and Fantasies of Knowing. 2019. Reaktion Books. 978-1-78914-101-6. 164–.
  10. Melanie Klein, 'Review of 'Women's Periodicity ', 1933.
  11. Book: Maggie Magee. Diana C. Miller. Lesbian Lives: Psychoanalytic Narratives Old and New. 2013. Routledge. 1-134-89866-5. 6, 11.
  12. Book: James Donald. Anne Friedberg. Laura Marcus. Close Up: Cinema And Modernism. 1998. Bloomsbury Publishing. 978-1-4411-1606-2. 313.

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