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nobody there knew what to do with me so I was put in charge of ' shell-shocked' patients.

In spite of being warned that psychoanalysts were a lot of Jews, foreigners and psychopaths, most un-English in fact- I went to see John Rickman.

(..) I liked him. I agreed, with great misgivings, to start analysis.

I joined the army as a major

And now this war- with Germany of course. Ridiculous.

As the reinforcements entered Singapore harbour, Julian Taylor had to pack his kit as he was to be senior surgeon at the Military Hospital

The debts amounted to about £70 to my analyst and £30 to my colleague. (..) So I stopped my attempts to be cured.

The 'analyst' to whom I had gone for 'cure' said it would require about twelve sessions to dispel the anxiety from which I was suffering after my scholastic and athletic failures at Oxford.

I thought I was in love

studying medicine was hard work

Why do you want to be a doctor? The Dean of the medical school inquired. I was not going to say, "because I want to be a psychoanalyst".