Person
John Rickman
English psychoanalyst and physician of the British Psychoanalytical Society, who was Wilfred Bion's first training analyst. During the Second World War he worked with Bion on group methods of treating soldiers at Northfield Military Hospital.
Read more- Born
- 1891
- Died
- 1951
- Influenced
- Wilfred Bion
- Notable works
- Experiences in Groups and Other Papers
analysed
- Wilfred Bion 1938 Bion's training analysis with Rickman began in 1938 and was cut short by the Second World War.
collaborated with
- Wilfred Bion 1943 Bion and Rickman co-wrote 'Intra-group tensions in therapy' (The Lancet, 1943) on the first Northfield experiment, reprinted as the 'Pre-view' of Experiences in Groups.