British Psychoanalytical Society

British Psychoanalytical Society
PredecessorLondon Psychoanalytical Society
Formation1913
FounderErnest Jones
Merger ofInstitute of Psychoanalysis
Location
  • London
LeaderVic Sedlak (President)
Websitehttp://psychoanalysis.org.uk/

The British Psychoanalytical Society was founded by Ernest Jones as the London Psychoanalytical Society on 30 October 1913. It is one of two organisations in Britain training psychoanalysts, the other being the British Psychoanalytic Association.

The society has been home to a number of psychoanalysts, including Wilfred Bion, Donald Winnicott, Anna Freud and Melanie Klein. Today it has over 400 members and is a member organisation of the International Psychoanalytical Association.[1]

  1. ^ "Who we are | Institute of Psychoanalysis". psychoanalysis.org.uk. Retrieved 26 October 2020.