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influential culture bearers, if you like, to work with them and promote their thought,
people like Eric Fromm back in the 50s and Karen Horney back in the 40s. These
were people who were influential in America in a way that I don’t think anybody was
in Britain. I mean Nina Coltart was recognized, with a certain amount of surprise by
British psychoanalysts as being very interested in Buddhism and sympathetic to it, but
I don't know she had the sort of influence that those people had in the States.
AR: Uh uh it’s almost as if uhm the sort of parish mentality of Anglicanism infects the
whole British culture.
DB: Yeah
AR: You exist in these little parishes, what you know goes on there but doesn't
necessarily become known somewhere else
DB: yes
AR: if the psychoanalytic community in Hampstead doesn’t mind being called a
parish, if that is not mixing metaphors, there is something about this community that,
is I have a limited awareness of it but it's about people knowing people knowing
people and there isn't, it’s not, psychoanalysis in Britain doesn't seek to be a
movement in a way perhaps it has become in some parts of America.
DB: yes. and I think it's a bit unfortunate for psychoanalysis in Britain that there has
only been one body that has trained people called psychoanalysts
AR: yeah
DB: which has tended to cause us to huddle in a way that has perhaps hasn’t
encouraged the openness that’s been possible in the States where there has been many
different psychoanalytic training institutions.
AR: almost certainly (loud) one of the implications in Britain has been a very precise
geographic location. I read somewhere, it may be anecdotal that something about
50% of all British psychoanalysts live in Hampstead and Swiss Cottage (laughs).
DB: yeah
AR: But when you actually look (loud) at the directory that is available on the web
and look for geographical locations outside of London, I could find one analyst in
Birmingham, one in Worcestershire,
DB: hmn
AR: there's one in Staffordshire,
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