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Julia Turner (psychoanalyst)

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306: 216: 246:, London. The clinic used a variety of psychiatric methods and disciplines at a time when psychological experimentation was booming; the clinic called its approach "orthopsychics". As psychology was underdeveloped as a science at the time, there was a focus on recruiting from those with a general education, rather than with specialist psychiatric training. From July 1915 the clinic began a training programme for psychotherapists by forming a sister organisation, the Society for the Study of Orthopsychics. This was the first course in England for training psychoanalysts. Part of the training included students having to undergo their own therapy, a requirement that was later adopted by the 265:... in providing certain newer forms of treatment, the utility of which in the kind of cases indicated has frequently been demonstrated, but which for lack of suitable conditions have so far only been accessible to a very limited number of sufferers. These forms of treatment are often referred to collectively as Psychotherapy and include the various forms of mental analysis, and re-synthesis which are known as Psychological Analysis (Janet, Morton Prince, &c.), Psycho-Analysis (Freud and Jung, &c.), and as Therapeutic Conversation and Persuasion (Dejerine, Dubois, &c.), Re-Education and Suggestion in the hypnoidal and hypnotic state. 141: 231:, London. Murray was working as a consulting physician at a clinic when they decided to establish the Medico-Psychological Clinic in Endsleigh Street. The clinic was one of the first psychotherapeutic consultancies in Britain. Initially the clinic operated informally, opening only three afternoons a week, offering its services to those who could not afford an alternative; one of the clinic's aims was to provide treatment that could be afforded by 372:
reads "To Jessie Margaret Murray M.D., B.S. (Durham) from whose inspired teaching and example is derived anything of value therein, this little book is dedicated." Turner died in 1946; her will closed with the words "It is my desire that my body be cremated and my ashes scattered upon the grave of my
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and returned to Britain determined to change the way the clinic was run. His brother Edward later described the "missionary zeal" with which his brother approached the task, banning any treatment except those on Freudian lines. The clinic had previously been run on non-partisan lines, using whichever
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After the closure of the clinic, Turner returned to her residence at Endsleigh Street and opened a practice that aimed to return to the charitable basis of their original clinic. She also continued to train students. She published three books on psychology:
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and retired from the clinic. Her position of co-director was taken by James Glover, who had joined the practice in 1918. He was medically trained and interested in psychoanalysis and had been rejected from military service because of his
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families. Several of the staff who worked and trained at the clinic became leading psychoanalysts. The clinic closed down in 1922, two years after Murray's death, as a result of political in-fighting and financial problems.
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After a split in the Society for the Study of Orthopsychics, Turner resigned and founded the Psychological Aid Society on 26 September 1921, with the headquarters in her residence in Endsleigh Street.
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By 1922 Glover left the clinic with some of the staff and students, essentially splitting the clinic, causing Turner to close it. Many of those staff who had not followed Glover joined the
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Turner joined many of the professional networks associated with her field. In July 1915 she and Murray founded the Society for the Study of Orthopsychics and she was also a member of the
352:. The hostel for shell-shocked soldiers was a large drain on finances. There were no endowments or major sponsors to keep it running, and charitable funding after the war was scant. 337:
discipline was deemed best for the patient, alongside medical treatment and changes in diet and exercise—although Murray, Turner and Sinclair had a personal preference for using
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progressed they began admitting men too. In April 1917 the clinic expanded into a neighbouring house to provide an in-patient facility for rehabilitating soldiers suffering from
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Turner continued practising psychotherapy and training and published three works on the subject in the 1920s. She died in 1946 and her ashes were scattered on Murray's grave in
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showed the institution described itself as "a high-class private school which aims at giving a liberal education to the daughters of gentlemen".
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The practice soon grew and in July 1914, after it received a £500 donation from the writer
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Between 1900 and 1904 Turner was the co-principal of Fir Grove House Ladies' School, in
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opened the Medico-Psychological Clinic in 1913, a pioneering entity that provided
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The clinic initially focused on treating women patients, but as the
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The Transformation of the Psyche in British Primary Care, 1870–1970
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Venton) Turner and her husband Alfred, a solicitor. Turner studied
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The Female Malady: Women, Madness and English Culture 1830-1980
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said dear friend Jessie Margaret Murray in Highgate Cemetery".
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After four years as a co-principal of a girls' school in
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Index

Dagenham
Essex
Psychoanalyst
psychoanalyst
suffragette
Essex
classics
University College London
Godalming
Surrey
Jessie Murray
psychological evaluation
middle-class
Highgate Cemetery

University College London
Dagenham
Essex
née
classics
University College London
BA
Jessie Murray
College of Preceptors
life partnership
Godalming
Surrey
Frontage of Georgian-style house
Endsleigh Street
Endsleigh Street

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