Merell Philippa Middlemore
| Miss Merell Philippa Middlemore MD BS | |||||||||
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| Born | 1898 | ||||||||
| Died | 1938 | ||||||||
| Residence | 19 Taviton Street, WC1 | ||||||||
| Occupation | medical | ||||||||
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1928.10.30 nominated
1934.01.23 It was resolved that the following names be removed from the list of Fellows, the subscriptions in each case being more than two years in arrears: Mr C.F. Ashton, Mrs C. Harding, Dr Loys-Treytorrens, Miss M.P. Middlemore, Mr J. Nakaya, Mr T.B. Nayar, Mr C.J. Bonnington, Mr Robert Turner, Mr Donald V. Newhall and Mr G.F. Powell
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Merrell Philippa Middlemore
Birthdate: July 05, 1898
Birthplace: St. Philip's Rectory, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England
Death:
Immediate Family:
Daughter of Sir John Throgmorton Middlemore and Mary Middlemore
Sister of Mary Evangeline Middlemore; Sarah Dorothea Middlemore; Emily Christabel Middlemore; Margaret Amphilis Middlemore; Katherine Joyce Middlemore and 3 others
Half sister of Marian Bagnall Middlemore
Merrell [Merell, Merrill] Philippa Middlemore was born in Warwickshire, England, the daughter of John Throgmorton Middlemore and Mary Middlemore née Price. Her father was a Member of Parliament and the manager of the Children's Emigration Homes in Birmingham. Merrell Middlemore studied medicine and qualified in 1923 at the London School of Medicine. She was a member of the British Psychoanalytical Society and an adherent of Melanie Klein. Trained as an obstetrician, she was in the 1930s one of the few analysts whose knowledge was based on the empiric observation of infants during the first two years of life.
In her posthumously published book The Nursing Couple, dealing with the feeding responses of infants in the first days of life, she showed how varied and complex even the earliest responses of the new-born were, and how intimately the experiences of being handled and suckled influenced the succeeding phases of feeling and later fantasy. Middlemore stressed, that in connection with the different habits of sucking, rudimentary psychic processes arose, which were within a few months organised so as to become fantasy.
Merrell Middlemore died suddenly of cardiac failure.
Publications
External Publications
The nursing couple. 1941
The treatment of bewitchment in a puritan community. IJP 15, 1934, 41-58
The uses of sensuality. In J. Rickman et al.: On the Bringing up of Children. London 1936, 57-85
