3 Quotes & Sayings By Frederick Pollock

Frederick Pollock was born in Manchester, England, in 1869. He read medicine at University College, London, and the Middlesex Hospital Medical School. He graduated with honors in medicine in 1898, and later worked as a house physician in the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. In 1901 he married his wife, Maud Read more

They had two daughters, Dorothy and Nina. Frederick was very interested in the work of Sigmund Freud and attended an evening class at the Tavistock Clinic. His interest in psychoanalysis developed into a lifelong concern with issues of personality.

He became one of the most respected psychoanalysts in Britain. His book The Making of Personality is still regarded as one of the best works on personality development. Frederick Pollock died in 1967 at age ninety-five.

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Who stole the livery of the court of Heaven To serve the Devil in. Frederick Pollock
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Crabbed and obscure definitions are of no use beyond a narrow circle of students, of whom probably every one has a pet one of his own. Frederick Pollock