Anthony Storr
English psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and author (1920–2001)
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Background and education
Born in London, Storr was educated at Winchester College, Christ's College, Cambridge, and Westminster Hospital. He was in the first cohort of medics to train in Jungian analysis at the Society of Analytical Psychology in London.
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Career
In 1974, Storr moved from private practice to a teaching appointment at the Warneford Hospital in Oxford, until his retirement in 1984.
Personal
Storr was, as one of his obituarists observed, "no stranger to suffering at formative stages of his life." He married twice, to Catherine Cole (who became a children's writer under her married name) in 1942 and writer Catherine Peters in 1970 after the first marriage ended in divorce.
Distinctions
- Emeritus Fellow of Green College (1984)
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (1990)
- Honorary FRCPsych (1993)