J. A. Hadfield

James Arthur Hadfield (1882–1967) was a pioneer of psychodynamic psychotherapy in Britain, who became an influential figure at the interwar Tavistock Clinic.

He is perhaps best known as being the analyst of W. R. Bion, while Bion was analysing Samuel Beckett.[1]

Technique

Coming from an academic background, Hadfield was influenced in his psychological approach by both Carl Jung and William McDougall.[2] Causally, Hadfield favoured lack of parental protection rather than the repression of sexual love as the source of childhood disturbances.[3]

His writings were repeatedly criticised by Ernest Jones for their lack of Freudianism;[4] while his analytic technique has been seen as a reductive attempt to uncover childhood trauma, at the expense of the use of the analytic relationship, and the exploration of transference and countertransference.[5]

Psychical research

Hadfield was also interested in psychical research. He was a believer in life after death and telepathy. He wrote the chapter "The Mind and the Brain" for the book Immortality: An Essay in Discovery Co-Ordinating Scientific, Psychical, and Biblical Research (London: Macmillan, 1917).[6]

Publications

Among his many publications were:

  • Psychology and Morals (1923)
  • Psychology of Power (1933)
  • Psychology and Modern Problems (1935)
  • Psychology and Morals: An Analysis of Character (1944)
  • Dream and Nightmares (1954)
  • Childhood and Adolescence (1962)
gollark: Are you just meant to have a basement operation doing highly advanced chemical synthesis or something for, say, new drug testing?
gollark: Also, many modern discoveries are basically impossible without stuff like "laboratories" and "full-time scientists" and supply chains providing the stuff they need.
gollark: As you go over that you probably have to keep adopting more and more norms and then guidelines and then rules and then laws to keep stuff coordinated.
gollark: Consider a silicon fab, which is used to make computer chips we need. That requires billions of $ in capital and thousands of people and probably millions more in supply chains.
gollark: Also, what do you mean "so what"? Technological progress directly affects standards of living.

See also

References
  1. C. Ross, Beckett's Art of Absence (2011) p. 20
  2. N. Torres, Bion's Sources (2013) p. 46-7
  3. R. Lipgar/M. Pines, Building on Bion (2013) p. 116
  4. N. Torres, Bion's Sources (2013) p. 46-7
  5. C. Ross, Beckett's Art of Absence (2011) p. 71
  6. Immortality: An Essay in Discovery Co-Ordinating Scientific, Psychical, and Biblical Research by Burnett H Streeter, A. Clutton-Brock, C. W. Emmet, J. A. Hadfield. The British Medical Journal. Volume 2, No 2974 (December, 29, 1917, p. 862).
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