Isaacs | Susan Sutherland

Susan Isaacs was born on 24 May 1885. She trained as a teacher and gained a degree in philosophy from Manchester University in 1912. Following a period as a research student at the Psychological Laboratory, Cambridge, she was Lecturer at Darlington Training College from 1913 to 1914 and then Lecturer in Logic at Manchester University from 1914 to 1915. After analysis with J C Flugel in 1920-1921, she travelled to Vienna for analysis with Otto Rank in 1921. Between 1924 and 1927, she was Head of Malting House School, Cambridge, an experimental school that fostered the individual development of children, where she carried out her pioneering research in child development. She went on to become the head of the newly established Department of Child Development in the Institute of Education in London University.

Isaacs became an Associate Member of the British Psychoanalytical Society in 1921 and a Member in 1923. In 1928 she entered analysis with Joan Riviere. She qualified as a Child Analyst in 1935. She joined the staff of the London Clinic of Psychoanalysis in 1931 and the Training Committee of the BPAS in 1944-45, playing an important role in the Society's Controversial Discussions.

She married twice, firstly to William Broadhurst Brierley and secondly to Nathan Isaacs in 1922. She died on 12 Oct 1948.

Educationalist and psychoanalyst

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