Michael Fordham

Michael Fordham
Born	4 August 1905 Kensington, London
Died	14 April 1995 Buckinghamshire, England
Citizenship	British
Nationality	English
Fields	Medicine, Child psychiatry, Jungian analysis
Institutions	West End Hospital for Nervous Diseases: Child Guidance Clinic
Alma mater	Cambridge University, St. Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College
Known for	Editing the English translation of Jung's Collected works
Influences	C. G. Jung, Melanie Klein, Donald Winnicott
Influenced	'The London School' of Analytical psychology

Michael Scott Montague Fordham (4 August 1905 – 14 April 1995) was an English child psychiatrist and Jungian analyst. He was a co-editor of the English translation of C.G. Jung's Collected Works. His clinical and theoretical collaboration with psychoanalysts, of the Object relations school led him to make significant theoretical contributions to what has become known as 'The London School' of analytical psychology in marked contrast to the approach of the C. G. Jung Institute, Zürich. His pioneering research into infancy and childhood led to a new understanding of the self and its relations with the ego. Part of Fordham's legacy is to have shown that the self in its unifying characteristics can transcend the apparently opposing forces that congregate in it and that while engaged in the struggle, it can be exceedingly disruptive both destructively and creatively.

Fordham was instrumental in founding the Society of Analytical Psychology London in 1946 and a founder of the Journal of Analytical Psychology of which he was editor for 15 years from 1955.

The second son of Montague Edward Fordham and his wife Sara Gertrude Worthington, Fordham was born in Kensington, London and was educated at Gresham's School, Holt, Norfolk (1918-1923), where in 1924 Fordham played Don Adriano in a Gresham's School performance of Love's Labour's Lost. He went up to Trinity College, Cambridge (1924-1927) to read Natural science. For his clinical training he attended St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College (1927-1932). He took the degrees of MB and BCh in 1931, and became an MRCP in 1932.

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