Michael Fordham

Michael Scott Montague Fordham (4 August 1905 – 14 April 1995) was an English psychiatrist, a Jungian analyst. The Michael Fordham Prize is named in his honour.

Background and education
The second son of Montague Edward Fordham and his wife Sara Gertrude Worthington, Fordham was born in Kensington, London and was educated at Gresham's School, Holt, Norfolk (1918-1923), Trinity College, Cambridge (1924-1927), and St Bartholomew's Hospital (1927-1932). He took the degrees of MB and BCh in 1931, and became an MRCP in 1932.

Career summary

 * 1932: Junior Medical Officer, Long Grove Mental Hospital, Epsom
 * 1933: Begins to read Jung
 * 1934: Fellow in Child Psychiatry, London Child Guidance Clinic
 * 1934-1936: in analysis with H. G. Baynes
 * 1934: visits Zurich to meet Jung, intending to train with him
 * 1935-1936: Spends a year as a General Practitioner in Barking
 * 1936: in analysis with Hilde Kirsch
 * 1936: part-time consultant at child guidance clinic in Nottingham
 * 1942: Consultant psychiatrist to evacuated children in Nottingham area
 * 1945: appointed co-editor of English translation of C. G. Jung's Collected Works
 * 1946: a founder of the Society of Analytical Psychology
 * 1946: Consultant to the Child Guidance Clinic at the West End Hospital for Nervous Diseases, London
 * 1947: Degree of MD
 * 1971: Founder Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatry
 * 1970s: Working at the Tavistock Clinic on mother-child observations

Publications

 * The Life of Childhood (1944)
 * New Developments in Analytical Psychology (1957)
 * The Objective Psyche (1958)
 * Children as Individuals (1969, revised from The Life of Childhood)
 * The Self and Autism (1976)
 * The Making of an Analyst: a memoir (London: Free Association Books, 1993)

From 1945, Fordham was co-editor of the English translation of C. G. Jung's Collected Works.

From 1955 to 1970 he was editor of the Journal of Analytical Psychology

Family
In 1928, Fordham married Molly Swabey, and their son Max was born in 1933. In 1940, his marriage was dissolved and he married secondly Frieda Hoyle, who died in 1987.