King, Pearl

Pearl King in addition to having been a practicing psychoanalyst since the early 1950s, is a lecturer, training supervisor and historian/archivist of the profession. She worked closely with both Dr D.W. Winnicott and Dr John Bowlby, all three being members of the British Psychoanalytical Society, of which Pearl King became the first non-medical President. She also served as Secretary to the International Psychoanalytical Association and was awarded the Sigourney Award, the highest honour in the discipline of psychoanalysis. The Freud-Klein Controversies is one of her best-known books, translat...