Crime in Mind
Book ticketsOrganised by:
British Psychoanalytical Society (incorporating the Institute of Psychoanalysis)
Description
Hybrid – Online or In Person at the Institute of Psychoanalysis
This conference will be recorded and available for 2 weeks*
An unexpected find in the British Psychoanalytical Society Archives sparked the idea for this conference. Amongst Sylvia Payne’s papers, our archivist discovered a collection of poems, drawings and songs gathered together as a magazine, ‘What we did in the Great War’ with contributions from ‘AC’, almost certainly Agatha Christie. Both women worked at Torquay Hospital during the First World War, Agatha Christie in the dispensary and Sylvia Payne as the Medical Superintendent. These were formative years from which they went on to highly distinguished careers. Sylvia Payne was a pioneering psychoanalyst and twice President of the Society.
