Edward Armstrong Bennet

Edward Armstrong Bennet MC, (21 October 1888 – 7 March 1977) was an Anglo-Irish decorated army chaplain during World War I, a British and Indian Army psychiatrist in the rank of brigadier during World War II, hospital consultant and author.[1]

He is known for his long collaboration with Carl Jung which started in the early 1930s and whom he invited to give the influential Tavistock Lectures in London in 1935.[2][3] He is regarded as one of the earliest practising Jungian analysts in the United Kingdom.[4]

  1. ^ Bennet, Edward Armstrong; Bennet, Eveline (1985). Meetings with Jung: Conversations Recorded During the Years 1946-1961. Switzerland: Daimon verlag. ISBN 978-3-856305017. with a biographical introduction on Bennet by Marie-Louise von Franz
  2. ^ Jung, C.G. (1977). The Symbolic Life: Miscellaneous Writings, Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Volume 18, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-09892-0
  3. ^ Jung, C.G. (1977). The Symbolic Life: Miscellaneous Writings, Collected Works of C. G. Jung, vol. XXVIII, London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-09895-3
  4. ^ Fordham Michael (1998). Roger Hobdell (ed.). Freud, Jung, Klein-- the Fenceless Field: Essays on Psychoanalysis and Analytical Psychology. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415186155.