Northfield Military Hospital
- Date:
- 1943-1945
- Reference:
- PP/SHF/C/3
- Part of:
- Foulkes, Siegmund Heinrich (1898-1976) and Elizabeth Therese Fanny (née Marx) (1918-2004)
- Archives and manuscripts
Collection contents
About this work
Publication/Creation
1943-1945
Physical description
30 files
Related material
PP/SHF/F/12/4 contains Tom Harrison and David Clarke, "The Northfield Experiments" (1992).
Ownership note
In 1942 SHF joined the RAMC, was appointed Major (Specialist Psychiatrist). He was posted to Northfield, a large military hospital near Birmingham which included the Military Neurosis Centre and Psychiatric Training Centre. The `First Northfield Experiment' had already been undertaken by Bion and Rickman who had established a group approach in one of the wards. SHF was given facilities to apply and develop group techniques which included the use of psychodrama. SHF was instrumental in the `Second Northfield Experiment' in which the whole hospital, including all the staff, became a `therapeutic community'. Other therapists included de Maré, James, Casson, Main, and Bridger. The files appear to be later accumulations and have been split where appropriate.
Copyright note
Copyright in Foulkes' unpublished works has been assigned to the Wellcome Trust by Mrs E Foulkes.