File 2 - Letters to Athol Hughes

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GB BPASA P28-A-2

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Letters to Athol Hughes

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  • 1985-c.1996; plus copies of earlier items (Creation)

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2 folders

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(1903-03-11--1997-01-19)

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Seventeen letters to Athol Hughes, discussing professional and personal matters; enclosed with the letters are notes on the history of child analysis in Canada, a copy of a personal letter from Scott to Marion Milner and a copy of the script for 'Sessions', a stage performance based on an analysis carried out by Scott.

Also included are a retyped copy of 'Psychoanalysis: the Kleinian view', published in the British Medical Bulletin in 1949 (for which Scott's preferred title is 'Progress of psychoanalysis in Great Britain'); an obituary of Melanie Klein by Scott, published in the Psychiatric Journal of the University of Ottawa in 1982; an article by Scott entitled 'Who is afraid of Wilfred Bion?', presented to the Canadian Psychoanalytic Society (Quebec English Branch) in 1986; notes on Scott's holidays, medical problems and other events in 1995 and 1996; a leaflet advertising a London performance of 'Sessions' in 1996 at which Athol Hughes chaired a discussion; a list of major events in his career between 1933 & 1960 (undated).

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  • English

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  • Latin

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