Helton Godwin Baynes

Helton Godwin Baynes, also known as Peter Baynes (26 June 1882 – 6 September 1943), was an English physician, army officer, analytical psychologist and author, who was a friend and early translator into English of Carl Jung.

Life

Baynes was educated at Leighton Park School (along with two other leading members of the British Psychoanalytical Society: John Rickman and Lionel Penrose) and then at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he read medicine and where he won Blues for Rowing and Swimming two years running. He graduated MBBS in 1910.

In 1913 he married Rosalind Thornycroft (1891-1973), daughter of Sir William Hamo Thornycroft, their daughters Bridget Rosalind and Chloë were born in 1914 and 1916. Godwin and Rosalind were divorced in 1921. (Rosalind, a friend of D. H. Lawrence, later married the art historian Arthur E. Popham. ) In 1927 he married Cary De Angulo. In 1922 Baynes went to Zurich for analysis. That year he started collaborating with Cary Angulo, née Fink (1883-1977) in translating Jung. Baynes accompanied Jung on his expedition to East Africa in 1925–26. On his return to the UK, he became one of the chief proponents of the new psychology, and leader of the London club, while others emigrated.

List of selected publications

Mythology of the soul; a research into the unconscious from schizophrenic dreams and drawings, London: Baillière, Tindall and Cox, 1940. Germany possessed, 1941. With an introduction by Hermann Rauschning. Analytical psychology and the English mind, and other papers, London: Methuen, 1950. "Foreword" to Analytical Psychology and the English Mind and Other Papers. London: Methuen and republican. CW 18, 78

Translated into English Jung, C. G., tr. Baynes, H. G. (1920). "The Psychological Foundations of Belief in Spirits." Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, XXXI:79 (May), 75–93. Read before a Society meeting, London, 4 July 1919. Jung, C. G., & Baynes, H. G. (1921). Psychological Types, or, The Psychology of Individuation. London: Kegan Paul Trench Trubner. (Collected Works Vol.6 ) and New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1926. The International Library of Psychology, Philosophy and Scientific Method Jung, C. G., Baynes, H. G., & Baynes, C. F. (1928). Contributions to Analytical Psychology. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. Jung, C. G., tr. Baynes, H. G. & Baynes, C. F.(1928) Two essays on analytical psychology. New York, Dodd, Mead and Co.