Northfield Military Hospital
- Date:
- 1943-1945
- Reference:
- PP/SHF/C/3
- Part of:
- Foulkes, Siegmund Heinrich (1898-1976) and Elizabeth Therese Fanny (née Marx) (1918-2004)
- Archives and manuscripts
Collection contents
About this work
Publication/Creation
1943-1945
Physical description
30 files
Biographical note
In 1942 SHF joined the RAMC, was appointed Major (Specialist Psychiatrist). He was posted to Northfield, a large military hospital near Birmingham which included the Military Neurosis Centre and Psychiatric Training Centre. The `First Northfield Experiment' had already been undertaken by Bion and Rickman who had established a group approach in one of the wards. SHF was given facilities to apply and develop group techniques which included the use of psychodrama. SHF was instrumental in the `Second Northfield Experiment' in which the whole hospital, including all the staff, became a `therapeutic community'. Other therapists included de Maré, James, Casson, Main, and Bridger. The files appear to be later accumulations and have been split where appropriate.
Related material
PP/SHF/F/12/4 contains Tom Harrison and David Clarke, "The Northfield Experiments" (1992).