Michael Scott Montague Fordham (4 August 1905 – 14 April 1995) was a British child psychiatrist, co-editor of Carl Jung’s Collected Works in English and founder of the Journal of Analytical Psychology. During his lifetime, he became instrumental in the dissemination of Jungian ideas throughout post-war Britain, while his pioneering research into infancy and childhood led to a new understanding of the self and its relations with the ego. His most radical departure from Jung was to describe the actions of the self in infancy and childhood such that the infant, far from being uncentred at birth, as Jung originally thought, is a person with an individual identity. Part of Fordham’s legacy is to have shown that the self in its unifying characteristics can transcend the apparently opposing forces that congregate in it and that while engaged in the struggle, it can be exceedingly disruptive both destructively and creatively.


Lecture Series

Some Reflections on Working with Michael Fordham:

Mentor, Clinician and Theoretician

by Brian Feldman



Michael Fordham and the Formation of Analytical Psychology

in Great Britain
by Sonu Shamdasani



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Time Requirements

You will need a total of 4 hours for the webinar content and additional time for reading the provided material. 

Faculty


Brian Feldman

Brian Feldman, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist (UC Berkeley), and served as chief psychologist in the Department of Child Psychiatry @ Stanford Medical Center where he received the distinguished teaching award. He trained as a child analyst with Michael Fordham over a ten year period, and teaches Fordham’s work in a number of Jungian Institutes world-wide. He is a certified child, adolescent and adult analyst (CGJISF, IRS-JA), and is a founding and training member of the International Association of Infant Observation (AIDOBB). He has held visiting professorships and has lectured @ the University of Dakar, Senegal; the Institute of Psychology, State University for Humanitarian Sciences in Moscow; the City University of Macau, and the University of Campinas, Brazil. He has published extensively in the areas of infant observation; the psychic skin; attachment; and child, adolescent and adult Jungian analysis. His work on the psychic skin and attachment was honored by the Psychoanalytic Consortium of Washington, D.C. in 2013. He maintains a private practice in Palo Alto, California.

Sonu Samsadani

Professor Sonu Shamdasani is Vice-Dean (Health) and Co-Director of the Health Humanities Centre at University College London. He is the General Editor of the Philemon Foundation, and has authored and edited over a dozen volumes which have been translated into many languages, including Michael Fordham’s Analyst-Patient Interaction: Collected Papers on Technique.

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Jungian Masters: Michael Fordham

Michael Scott Montague Fordham (4 August 1905 – 14 April 1995) was a British child psychiatrist, co-editor of Carl Jung’s Collected Works in English and founder of the Journal of Analytical Psychology. During his lifetime, he became instrumental in the dissemination of Jungian ideas throughout post-war Britain, while his pioneering research into infancy and childhood led to a new understanding of the self and its relations with the ego. His most radical departure from Jung was to describe the actions of the self in infancy and childhood such that the infant, far from being uncentred at birth, as Jung originally thought, is a person with an individual identity. Part of Fordham’s legacy is to have shown that the self in its unifying characteristics can transcend the apparently opposing forces that congregate in it and that while engaged in the struggle, it can be exceedingly disruptive both destructively and creatively.

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