Winifred Rushforth
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Dr Winifred Rushforth OBE (1885-1993) was a Jungian psychoanalyst.
Rushforth was born in West Lothian, Scotland, in 1885 and educated at Edinburgh Ladies' College. She graduated with an MB ChB from the University of Edinburgh in 1908.
On graduating, she set sail for India where she later met her husband and where she spent the best part of the next 20 years as a surgeon and hospital administrator, specialising in women's health. She became very interested in psychology and, on returning from India, spent some time training at the Tavistock Clinic, before setting up a private practice in Edinburgh in 1929. In 1939, during the burgeoning of the Child Guidance Movement, she established the Davidson Clinic with the aim of bringing family therapy to the community. In 1978 she was instrumental in setting up Wellspring as a successor to the Davidson Clinic. In the late 1970s she established a movement entitled Sempervivum which brought together free thinkers at annual Easter Schools.
Her daughter, Dr Diana Bates, contued Rushforth's work and was Director of Wellspring in Edinburgh for some years.
A 1982 portrait of Rushforth by the artist Victoria Crowe is held in the collection of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.
In 2002, a memorial sculpture in Edinburgh's George Square Gardens by the sculptor Christopher Hall was dedicated by Prince Charles, who had been introduced to Rushforth by Sir Laurens Van der Post.
[edit] Publications
- Something is Happening: Spiritual Analysis and Depth Psychology in the New Age (Turnstone Press, 1981)
- Ten Decades of Happenings (Gateway Books, 1984)(autobiography)
- Life's Currency: Time, Money and Energy : An Anthology of Shorter Writings (Atrium, 1986)
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