Adrian Stephen, psychoanalyst, scientific secretary, Institute of Psychoanalysis, London (1883 -- 1948) | NCP-LA

He and his wife Karin Stephen became interested in the work of Sigmund Freud and were among the first British psychoanalyst.

Adrian attended Trinty College, Cambridge, where he took an Ordinary Degree in law and history.

With the beginning of the Second World War Stephen abandoned his pacifis stance of the previous war and voluteered to become an army psychoanalyst in 1939, at the age of 57.

Active in promoting reforms in the British Psychoanalytic Society in 1942 -- 1944 during the Controversial Discussion, he became Scientific Secretary for the Institute of Psychoanalysis and took over the job of Editor of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis from James Strachey in 1946.