Ernest Jones

Ernest Jones
Born
Alfred Ernest Jones

(1879-01-01)1 January 1879
Gowerton, Wales
Died11 February 1958(1958-02-11) (aged 79)
London, England
NationalityWelsh
Alma materUniversity College London
Spouses
  • (m. 1917; died 1918)
  • Katharina Jokl
    (m. 1919)
Scientific career
Fields

Alfred Ernest Jones FRCP MRCS (1 January 1879 – 11 February 1958) was a Welsh neurologist and psychoanalyst. A lifelong friend and colleague of Sigmund Freud from their first meeting in 1908, he became his official biographer. Jones was the first English-speaking practitioner of psychoanalysis and became its leading exponent in the English-speaking world. As President of both the International Psychoanalytical Association and the British Psycho-Analytical Society in the 1920s and 1930s, Jones exercised a formative influence in the establishment of their organisations, institutions and publications.[1]

  1. ^ Maddox 2006, p. 1.