{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2020}} {{short description|English Jungian psychologist}} {{Use British English|date=January 2020}} '''Edward Armstrong Bennet''' MC, (21 October 1888 – 7 March 1977) was an Anglo-Irish decorated army chaplain during World War I, a British and Indian Army psychiatrist in the rank of brigadier during World War II, hospital consultant and author.<ref name=Bennet>{{cite book|last1 = Bennet | first1 = Edward Armstrong | last2 = Bennet | first2 = Eveline |title= Meetings with Jung: Conversations Recorded During the Years 1946-1961|location = Switzerland|publisher = Daimon verlag|date= 1985|isbn=978-3-856305017}} with a biographical introduction on Bennet by Marie-Louise von Franz</ref>
He is known for his long collaboration with Carl Jung which started in the early 1930s and whom he invited to give the influential ''Tavistock Lectures'' in London in 1935.<ref>Jung, C.G. (1977). ''The Symbolic Life: Miscellaneous Writings'', Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Volume 18, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. {{ISBN|978-0-691-09892-0}}</ref><ref>Jung, C.G. (1977). ''The Symbolic Life: Miscellaneous Writings'', Collected Works of C. G. Jung, vol. XXVIII, London: Routledge. {{ISBN|978-0-415-09895-3}}</ref> He is regarded as one of the earliest practising Jungian analysts in the United Kingdom.<ref>{{cite book|title=Freud, Jung, Klein-- the Fenceless Field: Essays on Psychoanalysis and Analytical Psychology|author= Fordham Michael|editor=Roger Hobdell|publisher=Routledge|date= 1998|isbn= 978-0-415186155}}</ref>
==Education== Born in Poyntzpass, County Down Ireland, Bennet was educated at Campbell College, Trinity College, Dublin (twice), and Ridley Hall, Cambridge.<ref name=Bennet/>
==Career== After studying Philosophy and Theology at Trinity College, Dublin, Bennet went to Ridley Hall where he was ordained into the Church of England. During the First World War he served as a military chaplain and was awarded the Military Cross for "conspicuous bravery".<ref name=Bennet/> After hostilities ended he returned to Trinity College, Dublin where he qualified in Medicine in 1925.<ref name=Bennet/> In 1925 he moved to London, where he obtained a post in the West End Hospital for Nervous Diseases.<ref name=Bennet/><ref>{{cite web|title=West End Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, 91 Dean Street, Soho, W1|publisher=Lost hospitals of London|url= https://ezitis.myzen.co.uk/westend.html|access-date=2020-01-12}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|publisher=National Archives|title=West End Hospital for Nervous Diseases|url=http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/hospitalrecords/details.asp?id=2708}}</ref> He also joined the Tavistock Clinic, then led by Hugh Crichton-Miller, as an honorary psychiatrist.<ref name=Bennet/> In the early 1930s he met the Swiss psychiatrist, Carl Jung and invited him to London to give the "Tavistock lectures" in 1935. He was awarded a Doctor of Science degree in 1939.<ref name=Bennet/>
During World War II Bennet served a command psychiatrist in India and in the 11th Army Group.<ref name=Bennet/> He was promoted to brigadier. After the war he resumed his close collaboration with Jung which lasted until the latter's death in 1961.<ref name=Bennet/> He also joined the Royal Bethlem and the Maudsley Hospitals where he remained until his retirement in 1955.<ref name=Bennet/> He carried on a private practice and was active on church and medical committees.<ref name=Bennet/> Bennet was for a time a member of the newly formed Society of Analytical Psychology, but fell out with its leader, Michael Fordham. There was a brief reconciliation, however, Bennet resigned permanently in 1963.<ref>{{cite journal|author=Casement, A. |date=1995|title= A Brief History of Jungian Splits in the United Kingdom|journal= Journal of Analytical Psychology |volume=40 |issue=3|pages=327–342|doi=10.1111/j.1465-5922.1995.00327.x}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Kirsch, Thomas B.|title =The Jungians: A Comparative and Historical Perspective|publisher=Routledge|date= 2012|page=41|isbn= 9781134725519}}</ref>
===Committee work=== He served on:{{citation needed|date=January 2020}} * The Hypnotism Sub-committee of the BMA 1955-6 * The Archbishop of Canterbury's Commission on Spiritual Healing 1954-5 * The Drug addiction Committee of the BMA 1955-6<ref name=Bennet/>
===Personal=== Bennet was married to Eveline, his co-author of ''Meetings with Jung''.<ref name=Bennet/>
==Publications== In English: * ''What Jung Really Said''. Schocken Books; 4th Revised edition (1 July 1995) {{ISBN|978-0805210460}} * ''C.G. Jung''. Chiron, 2006 {{ISBN| 9781888602357}} * ''Meetings with Jung: Conversations Recorded During the Years, 1946-1961''. Daimon Books, 1992 {{ISBN| 9783856305017}}
* “Hysteria, a Disorder of Social Integration”, (Thesis), Bennet, E. A., 1930. * ''The Quality of Leadership'' (Paper) * "The Psychopathology of Sexual Perversions". E. A. Bennet, M.C., M.D., D.P.M. ''Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine''. June 1, 1933 https://doi.org/10.1177/003591573302600826
In translation: * ''Jung og hans tankeverden'' * ''Τι είπε στ' αλήθεια ο Γιούνγκ'' * ''A normalização como instrumento de inovação e competitividade na MPE'' * ''Ce que jung a vraiment dit''
==See also== Marion Woodman
==References== {{reflist}}
==Further reading== * Obituary, ''The Lancet'', 2 April 1977, 1 (8814): 763
== External links== * [https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-57283 Edward Armstrong Bennet by Glin Bennet], Dictionary of National Biography * {{cite web|title=Edward Armstrong B E N N E T Psychiater, analyt. Psychologe TEILNACHLASS (Briefe & Dokumente zu G.G.Jung) |url=https://www.research-collection.ethz.ch/bitstream/handle/20.500.11850/139755/eth-22205-01.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y|date=1989|location=Zürich|access-date=2020-01-13}} Catalogue of manuscripts, correspondence between Bennet and Jung, printed documents and publications by Bennet held at the Archive,
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