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

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Life

Baynes was educated at

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(along with two other leading members of the

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: John Rickman and

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) and then at

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where he read medicine and where he won Blues for Rowing and Swimming two years running. He graduated M.B. B.C. in 1910. In 1913 he married Rosalind Thornycroft (1891-1973), daughter of Sir William

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, their daughters Bridget Rosalind and Chloë were born in 1914 and 1916. Godwin and Rosalind were divorced in 1921. (Rosalind, a friend of

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, later married the art historian Arthur E. Popham.) In 1927 he married Cary De Angulo. She divorced him in 1931 when he became involved with someone else. Baynes died on 6 September 1943.

Background

Baynes became a House Physician at

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for his qualifying year, obtaining his M.R.C.S.Eng, L.R.C.P.Lond in 1912. Later he studied hypnotism at ''

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'' in Paris. He volunteered to serve in the

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(1912-1913) and was head of the

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mission to

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and was decorated by Enver Pasha. After practicing in

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he moved to

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in late 1913, leaving the town in 1915. He had established a new practice in the Old Market. He served in the

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and

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and was mentioned in dispatches. During

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he became interested in Jung's psychology and was part of a group that formed the Analytical Psychology Club after the war. It was modelled on the club convened by Jung in Zurich. In 1922 Baynes went to Zurich for analysis. That year he started collaborating with Cary Angulo, née Fink (1883-1977) in translating Jung.Library of Congress Name Authority File: Cary F. Baynes
/ref> 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. Baynes was a friend of the Fordham family and was supportive of them after Mrs. Fordham died leaving teenage children among whom was the future fellow Trinity alumnus and pioneer Jungian analyst,

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. Baynes offered him a first brief analysis in 1933, and after Fordham failed to become an assistant to Jung in Zurich, Baynes saw him again for a period (1935–36) before handing him on to Hildegard Kirsch, a Zurich trained psychologist and refugee from Germany.

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

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. * ''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

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'', 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.

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* 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.

References

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External links

Letters from Jung to Baynes
at the

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