Dr. James Anthony

The co-author, with S. H. Foulkes, of the Penquin "Introduction to Group-Analytic Psychotherapy". James Anthony was a psychoanalyst who trained in London where he began an eminent career as a child psychotherapist and psychiatrist. He studied child development under Jean Piaget and, after leaving the Maudsley Hospital, occupied a chair in Child Psychiatry at St Louis, Missouri. He is the author of many papers on Group Analysis, psychoanalysis, and child psychiatry. His collaboration with Foulkes, who became his training analyst, began at Northfield Hospital and in the early 1950's he became a founder member of the Group Analytic Society. Towards the end of his career he became Director of Psychotherapy at Chestnut Lodge, where he developed a programme of group psychotherapy for adolescent inpatients.