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Masud Khan was born into a wealthy family in the Punjab in India in 1924. He was the second child of Fazaldad Khan, his father's fourth marriage to Khursheed Begum. In 1942 he began study at the university of Punjab, specialising in English literature. The following year his younger sister died from an incorrect dose of medication for tuberculosis. His father died the following year.

Hoping to deal with these traumatic events Khan began an analysis with an Indian psychologist who had trained in the United States. It was suggested that he undergo a full analysis and in 1946 he applied for and was accepted by the Institute of Psychoanalysis in London. He began analysis with Ella Freeman Sharpe who died the following year in 1947. He continued with John Rickman until 1951 when he too died.

Khan qualified at the age of 26 in 1950 and became a Member in 1955. He then started analysis with Winnicott with whom he would develop a close relationship as editor of many of Winnicott's collected papers. As well as being Librarian of the British Society he played an important role as Reviews and Associate Editor for the International Journal of Psychoanalysis and as Editor for the International Library series.

In the last years of Khan's life his reputation was marred by scandal.

John Klauber was born in Hampstead, London, on 1 Jan 1917 of a distinguished Hungarian Jewish family. He was educated at St. Paul’s School, London, and Christ Church College, Oxford, where he studied history, graduating in 1939. During the Second World War, Klauber served as a captain in the British Army Intelligence Corps in North Africa and the Middle-East.

After becoming interested in Jung while at St Paul’s, and later reading Freud at Oxford and while on military service, Klauber wrote to Ernest Jones whilst still in the army, expressing his wish to become a psychoanalyst. Jones met him and encouraged him to train. He commenced his psychoanalytic training in 1948, initially being analysed by Dr Kate Friedlander and, following her death, by Mrs Eva Rosenfeld. In parallel, Klauber also trained in medicine at Middlesex Hospital, qualifying as a doctor in 1951. He gained one year's experience in psychiatry at Bethlem Royal Hospital under J B S Lewis.

Starting work as a psychoanalyst in 1953, Klauber became an Associate Member of the British Psychoanalytical Society that same year and gained full membership of the Society in 1959. He was also a member of the British Psychological Society and a Foundation Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. He was recognized as an Independent in terms of his psychoanalytic theory and practice and held the chairmanship of the Scientific Committee of the BPAS from 1971 to 1976. At the time of his death he had been President of the BPAS for a year and was also Freud Memorial Visiting Professor Elect at University College, London. He died on 11 Aug 1981 at the age of 64.

Roger Money-Kyrle was born on 31 Jan 1898. He served in the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War, before attending Cambridge University. He left university for a while to enter into analysis with Ernest Jones. After returning to complete his BA at Cambridge, he moved to Vienna to undertake analysis with Sigmund Freud and complete a PhD. On returning to England, he took another PhD at University College London under the supervision of J C Flugel. After this was completed, he was elected as an Associate Member of the British Psychoanalytical Society, although he did not begin a training analysis until the late 1930s. This analysis, with Melanie Klein, continued while he served in the Air Ministry during the Second World War. After the war, he spent six months in Germany with the Control Commission. He was recommended for membership of the British Psychoanalytical Society in 1945 and entered into psychoanalytic practice.

Barbara Lantos was a member of the Hungarian Psychoanalytic Society and moved to London in 1935. She became active within the British Psychoanalytical Society, including as a supporter of Anna Freud during the Controversial Discussions.

Margaret Little was born in Bedford on 21st May 1901. She went to a Froebel Kindergarten and after to the Bedford High School for Girls. She read medicine and completed her clinical training at St Mary's Hospital in 1927. From 1928 to 1939 she acted as a general practitioner in Edgware, London. During this time she had been a clinical assistant at the Tavistock Institute for Psychotherapy (1936 to 1939) and had already started a private psychotherapy practice.

In 1936 she sought the help of an unnamed Jungian analyst. This analyst encouraged her to train at the Tavistock Insitute and introduced her to Ella Sharpe with whom she subsequently began an analysis in 1941. She was elected as an Associate Member of the British Psychoanalytical Society (BPS) in 1945 and a Full Member the following year. Following Ella Sharpe's death in 1947, she was analysed by Marion Milner and then Donald Winnicott. Margaret Little was very active in the affairs of the BPS and held various posts including Honorary Business Secretary and Training Committee Secretary . She also became a Training Analyst in 1949.

Margaret Little is particularly known for her contributions on counter-transference and from 1951 until 1967 she published a number of papers on this theme.

In the late 1960s she met and lived with journalist Reg Sizen with whom she bought a cottage in Sundridge, Kent. In 1971 following Sizen's death and that of Donald Winnicott she retired from practice in London and moved to the cottage.

Besides her work as a psychoanalyst Margaret Little was a painter and poet. An anthology of her essays and poems was published in 1981 under the title 'Transference Neurosis and Transference Psychosis. Toward Basic Unity'.

Margaret Little moved again to Dunton Green, Kent where she made a devoted friend Peter Evans who would be with her for the remaining years of her life.

Wolfgang Loch was born in Berlin on 10 May 1915 and died in Rottweil in on 7 Feb 1995. Even during his lifetime, he acquired the reputation of being the most prominent German-language psychoanalytic theorist of the second half of the twentieth century, particularly with regards to object-relations theory.

Amongst his professional activities, he established a chair of psychoanalysis at the University of Tübingen and he was a founding member and the first president of the Stuttgart-Tübingen Psychoanalytic Study Group. Michael Balint was first his mentor and then his friend, and Loch made substantial contributions to the development of the Balint Group method. For over two decades, he co-edited the 'Jahrbuch der Psychoanalyse'. He was president of the German Psychoanalytical Association (DPV) from 1972 to 1975 and became a member emeritus of the DPV in 1990.

Thomas Forrest Main was born on 25 February 1911 in Johannesburg, his father, a mine manager, having emigrated there from England. At the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 his mother returned to Tyneside with Main and his two sisters, while his father stayed and joined the South African army. Main won a scholarship to the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1922, where he was regarded as an excellent scholar with particular interests in poetry and classical music and was also an outstanding rugby player. At the age of 16 he won a scholarship to the Medical College of the University of Durham, graduating with Honours in 1933 and obtaining his doctorate in 1938. While at medical school, Main met his future wife, Agnes Mary (Molly) McHaffie, and they married on 27 February 1937. Main had read 'The Interpretation of Dreams' when he was still at school and he was greatly influenced by James Spence, paediatrician at Newcastle medical school. This decided him to specialise in psychiatry and having gained a Diploma in Psychological Medicine from Dublin in 1936, he obtained a post as consultant psychiatrist at Gateshead Mental Hospital in Northumberland.

During the Second World War, Main became convinced about psychoanalysis and he had a year's analysis with Susan Isaacs. His interests in the Army were in the areas of officer selection, the handling of delinquents and misfits and the maintenance of morale. He advised on morale in the North African campaign but, after a contretemps with Field Marshal Montgomery in which he was accused of attributing cowardice to Monty’s men, he returned to become psychiatric adviser to the 21st Army Group, planning for psychiatric services for the Normandy invasion. He studied the morale of paratroopers by training with them, making several jumps and visiting the front line in France in order to experience battle conditions at first hand. A Lieutenant-Colonel by the end of the war, Main went to work at the Northfield Army Hospital for the treatment of war neuroses, where the idea of the therapeutic community was born. While there he was head-hunted for the Cassel Hospital for Functional Nervous Disorders and became Medical Director there in 1946. He worked there for some 30 years where he conceived the term ‘therapeutic community' and developed the idea, involving the whole community in consultation.

Training as a psychoanalyst under Dr Michael Balint, he was supervised by Anna Freud, Melanie Klein and Paula Heimann. Tom Main was also the architect of the Institute of Psychosexual Medicine, of which he was made Life President. He also became vice-president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, co-editor of the British Journal of Medical Psychology and had many other honours including various fellowships and travelling professorships. His eldest daughter, the psychoanalyst Dr Jennifer Johns, persuaded him to publish the most important of his papers in his book 'The Ailment and other Psycho-Analytical Essays', which was published shortly before Main died in Barnes, London on 29 May 1990, aged 79.