Edward Armstrong Bennet

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.

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. He is regarded as one of the earliest practising Jungian analysts in the United Kingdom.

Education Born in Poyntzpass, County Down Ireland, Bennet was educated at Campbell College, Trinity College, Dublin (twice), and Ridley Hall, Cambridge. He also joined the Tavistock Clinic, then led by Hugh Crichton-Miller, as an honorary psychiatrist.

Committee work He served on: 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

Personal Bennet was married to Eveline, his co-author of Meetings with Jung.

Publications In English: What Jung Really Said. Schocken Books; 4th Revised edition (1 July 1995) C.G. Jung. Chiron, 2006 Meetings with Jung: Conversations Recorded During the Years, 1946-1961. Daimon Books, 1992

“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