Sub Aqua Club ref1
Bath Spa University ref1
Beaudesert Park, Gloucestershire ref1
bereavement ref1, ref2
Biarritz ref1
Bion, Wilfred R. ref1
Biz (Bess) see Hickson, Elizabeth
Blake, William ref1
blame ref1
for being a working mother ref1
shifting between partners ref1
BMA (British Medical Association) ref1
body/mind relationship ref1, ref2, ref3
psychosexual problems and therapy see psychosexual medicine
see also soul
body fantasies ref1
brain imaging ref1, ref2
breast-feeding ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Bristol ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Bristol Royal Infirmary (BRI) ref1
Bristol University ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
British Association of Sexual and Relationship Therapists (BASRT) ref1
British Journal of Family Planning ref1
British Medical Association (BMA) ref1
British National Formulary (BNF) ref1, ref2, ref3
Brook, Peter ref1
Browne, John Collis ref1
Burnham-Slipper, Dr ref1, ref2
Carcassonne ref1
Cardy, Gill ref1
Cardy, Ian ref1
Cartesian dualism, the body/mind split ref1
see also body/mind relationship
Cassel hospital ref1
Castleford hospital ref1
castration fantasies ref1
Caterham ref1, ref2
Catholicism ref1, ref2
Chamberlain, Neville ref1
Cherwell, river ref1
CHICKS (Country Holidays for Inner City Kids) ref1
child abuse ref1, ref2
childhood ref1
childhood home see Green Gables, Chippenham
education see education; schools
psychoanalysis and childhood memories ref1, ref2, ref3
and the Second World War ref1, ref2, ref3
teenage years ref1, ref2, ref3
Chippenham, Wiltshire ref1
bombing ref1
cottage hospital ref1, ref2
Greenways maternity home ref1, ref2
Chodorow, Joan ref1, ref2
Churchill, Winston ref1
City of Benares (ship taking children to USA) ref1
Clarke, Lindsay ref1, ref2
Clifton Hill House ref1
Cockleshell Heroes (film) ref1
College of General Practitioners ref1, ref2
College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists ref1, ref2
College of Sexual and Relationship Therapists (COSRT) ref1
Colley, Mr (eye surgeon) ref1
Colley family ref1
Compton bay ref1
condoms ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
contraception see family planning and contraception
Contraception and Sexual Life (Tunnadine) ref1
Corbett, Margaret ref1
Corsham ref1
maternity home ref1
Corsham Court ref1
COSRT (College of Sexual and Relationship Therapists) ref1
Coulsden, Surrey ref1
Coulson, Cathy ref1
Country Holidays for Inner City Kids (CHICKS) ref1
creative writing ref1, ref2
Crick, Francis ref1
Crowther, Lucy ref1, ref2
Daisy see White, Daisy
Daniels, John: Looking After ref1
daydreams ref1
defences, psychological ref1
Descartes, René ref1
diabetes ref1, ref2, ref3
diaphragms, contraceptive ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
dissection ref1
doctor–patient relationship ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
‘Dr Ruth’ (Ruth Westheimer) ref1
Drake, Robert ref1
dreams ref1, ref2
dualism, the Cartesian body/mind split ref1
see also body/mind relationship
education ref1, ref2, ref3
Bristol University ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
by governesses at home ref1
of Helen Skrine ref1
medical training see medical training
Open College of the Arts ref1
School Certificate exams ref1, ref2
schools see schools
Sheffield University ref1
spelling ref1
Eliot, T. S. ‘Little Gidding’ ref1
empathy ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Empire Training School ref1
false memories ref1
family planning and contraception ref1, ref2
Catholic teaching and practice ref1
condoms ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Contraceptive Care (H. Montford and R. Skrine) ref1
diaphragms ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
family planning clinics ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
FPA see Family Planning Association
freedom to choose ref1
intrauterine devices ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Joint Committee on Contraception ref1
National Birth Control Trust ref1
the pill ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
psychological approach ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
rhythm method ref1, ref2
Ruth’s family planning work ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10
sterilisation ref1
training in FP ref1
withdrawal method ref1, ref2
Family Planning Association (FPA) ref1, ref2, ref3
certificate ref1
marriage guidance clinics ref1
vasectomy counselling ref1
father figures ref1, ref2
fear
of being alone ref1
of being shattered ref1
of a block ref1
in the consultation ref1
and the couple ref1
as a crisis emotion ref1
and hypoglycaemia ref1
and unspoken clues ref1
war and the projection of ref1
fears
could not be expressed ref1
hidden ref1, ref2
unrecognised ref1
First World War ref1, ref2
Flatford Mill ref1
Fleming, Alexander ref1
Forsythe, Elizabeth ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Fox, Miss (governess) ref1, ref2
France, holidays in ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Freud, Sigmund ref1
Friedman, Leonard: Virgin Wives (ed) ref1
frigidity ref1, ref2
Gendlin, Eugene: focusing ref1
general practice
Balint’s ideas on ref1
cooperative approach ref1
developments from start of NHS ref1
Eric Hickson ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13
Joan Hickson ref1, ref2, ref3
Ruth Skrine ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Gilley, Judy ref1, ref2
Great War ref1, ref2
Green Gables, Chippenham ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11
Greenways maternity home, Chippenham ref1, ref2
Gregson, Elizabeth ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Grier, Francis ref1
Guggenbuhl-Craig, Adolf
Marriage Dead or Alive ref1
The Old Fool and the Corruption of Myth ref1
Guillebaud, John ref1, ref2
Guthrie, Sylvia ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Hammersmith Hospital ref1
Harlow, Mr, (gardener) ref1
Henderson, Lawrence ref1
Hendon ref1, ref2
Hewell Grange, Worcestershire ref1, ref2, ref3
borstal ref1, ref2, ref3
Hewer, Professor ref1
Hickson, Arthur (Ruth
Skrine’s brother) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10
as a child ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9
French trip (1947) ref1
joins Fleet Air Arm ref1
Hickson, Elizabeth (Biz, Ruth Skrine’s sister) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8
as a child ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12
as Ruth’s bridesmaid ref1
Hickson, Eric (Ruth Skrine’s father) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
death and funeral ref1
final illness ref1
flute ref1
as a GP ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13
A Guide to Obstetrics in General Practice (with Nixon) ref1, ref2
and Ruth’s childhood ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12
and Ruth’s wedding ref1
war-time fire-watching ref1
Hickson, Joan, née Whitelock (Ruth Skrine’s mother) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9
atheism ref1, ref2, ref3
birth, family background and upbringing ref1
breast-feeding style ref1, ref2
caring for ref1, ref2
Carry on Coping ref1, ref2
death and funeral ref1
as a doctor ref1, ref2, ref3
dress sense ref1, ref2
and Eric’s death ref1, ref2
move to Bath ref1
relationship with Daisy White ref1
Ruth’s ambivalent feelings for ref1, ref2
and Ruth’s analysis experiences ref1, ref2, ref3
and Ruth’s career as a doctor ref1
and Ruth’s childhood ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16
and Ruth’s nursing ambition ref1
and Ruth’s wedding ref1
sale of Green Gables ref1
sense of decorum ref1
transient ischaemic attack ref1
war-time fire-watching ref1
wedding ref1
Hickson, Ruth, later Ruth Skrine see Skrine, Ruth, née Hickson
Hickson, Ruth née Robinson (Ruth Skrine’s sister-in-law) ref1, ref2
Hillman, James
The Force of Character ref1
The Soul’s Code ref1
Hinton House, Somerset ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
homoeopathic medicine ref1
Hooper, Helen ref1
Hooper, Paul ref1
Hughes, Ted ref1
Hullavington airfield ref1
Hume, Basil ref1
Hurford, Mrs ref1
Hutchinson, R. C. ref1
hygiene ref1, ref2, ref3
hymens ref1
hypoglycaemia ref1
impotence ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Index Medicus ref1
Indian philosophy of life periods ref1
individuation ref1, ref2, ref3
infant and school health service ref1
Institute of Psychosexual Medicine (IPM) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12
leaders’ workshop transcriptions ref1, ref2
Ruth as seminar leader/lecturer ref1, ref2
intrauterine devices (IUDs) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
IPM see Institute of Psychosexual Medicine
Jenny see Lowe, Jenny
Jim see Murray, Jim
Johnson, Deirdre: Love: Bondage or Liberation ref1, ref2
Joint Committee on Contraception ref1
Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care ref1, ref2
Journal of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy ref1
Journal of Sexual and Marital Therapy ref1, ref2
jugglers ref1
Jung, Carl Gustav ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Kay, Jackie: ‘Mother and Donor and Deirdre’ ref1
King, Dr ref1
Klein, Melanie ref1
Kuala Lumpur ref1
Kynance Cove ref1
Laskey, Michael ref1
Latham, Simon ref1
Levine, Tiki (Alison,) née Murray (Ruth Skrine’s niece) ref1
Leyhill prison ref1
Liberal party ref1
Lincoln, Rosemary ref1
Lister, Joseph, 1st Baron ref1
literacy ref1
London School of Economics (LSE) ref1
love
sexual see sexuality and love
and spiritual/religious experience ref1
Lowe, Jenny née Shaw (Ruth Skrine’s cousin) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14
Luke, Helen ref1
Old Age: Journey into Simplicity ref1
Lumb Bank ref1
Maidstone prison ref1, ref2
Main, Tom ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17
Malaysia ref1
Margaret Pyke Centre ref1
Marinker, Marshall ref1, ref2, ref3
marriage guidance clinics ref1
Masters, William H. and Johnson, Virginia E. ref1
Matthews, Jimmy (Publisher, Montana Press)189, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Matthews, Jo ref1, ref2, ref3
McGilchrist, Iain ref1, ref2, ref3
The Master and his Emissary ref1
medical practice
balance with home life ref1, ref2
and the body/mind relationship ref1
family planning see family planning and contraception
general see general practice
homoeopathic ref1
hospital medicine, from start of NHS ref1
infant and school health service ref1
preventive medicine ref1
psychosexual see psychosexual medicine
psychotherapy see psychoanalysis/psychotherapy
and the scientific approach in medicine ref1
and the search for meaning ref1
terminal care ref1
medical training ref1, ref2, ref3
Bristol Royal Infirmary ref1
Bristol University ref1, ref2
College of General Practitioners ref1
in family planning ref1
Institute of Psychosexual Medicine ref1
Sheffield University ref1
menstruation ref1
Meredith, Hugh ref1
Meredith, Mrs ref1
Milner, Marion ref1, ref2
Montford, Heather ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Contraceptive Care (with R. Skrine) ref1
Psychosexual Medicine, An Introduction (with R. Skrine) ref1
Moore, Thomas ref1
mothering ref1, ref2
Ruth and motherhood ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
see also breast-feeding
Mulrooney, Leo ref1, ref2
mumps ref1
Murray, Jim (Biz Hickson’s husband) ref1
Murray, Will (Ruth Skrine’s nephew) ref1
music ref1, ref2, ref3
myth ref1, ref2, ref3
National Birth Control Trust ref1
National Health Service
beginning and development ref1
organisation ref1, ref2
Neal, Professor ref1
New Age ref1, ref2
New England Journal of Medicine ref1
Newton, Alec (Ruth Skrine’s grandson) ref1, ref2, ref3
Newton, Simon (Helen Skrine’s husband) ref1, ref2, ref3
Nixon, Will ref1, ref2
nursing ref1
Nutt, Mrs (cleaner) ref1
Oldfield School, Swanage ref1
Open College of the Arts (OCA) ref1
Oxford canal ref1
Parkhurst ref1, ref2
Pasteur, Louis ref1
Pena
ng ref1
Perry, Bruce ref1
physiology ref1
pill, contraceptive ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Pip, Aunt (Mrs Timberlake née Hickson) ref1, ref2
Pollington ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
Pontefract General Infirmary ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Portsmouth ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Poulett family ref1
preventive medicine ref1
prison service ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
projection ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
psychoanalysis/psychotherapy ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
‘applied psychoanalysis’ (Main) ref1 see also psychosexual medicine
childhood memories ref1, ref2, ref3
and coping with widowhood ref1
doctor–patient relationship ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
dreams ref1
father figure betrayal ref1
Jungian analytical psychology ref1, ref2, ref3 see also archetypes; individuation
psychodynamic counselling ref1
and Ruth’s mother ref1, ref2, ref3
as a safe space ref1, ref2
and the study of feelings ref1, ref2, ref3
training ref1
see also psychosexual medicine
psychoanalysts ref1, ref2
as father figures ref1
footware ref1
and the struggle with the inner life ref1
psychosexual medicine ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
Blocks and Freedoms in Sexual Life (R. Skrine) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
and the body/mind relationship ref1
and body fantasies ref1
and child abuse ref1, ref2
and childbirth ref1, ref2
and the doctor–patient relationship ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
‘Emotional contact and containment in psychosexual medicine’ (R. Skrine) ref1
and false memories ref1
and impotence ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Introduction to Psychosexual Medicine (R. Skrine) ref1
IPM see Institute of Psychosexual Medicine
‘love’ and its absence in psychosexual work and literature ref1
psychological approach to contraception ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4 see also family planning and contraception
Psychosexual Medicine, An Introduction (H. Montford and R. Skrine) ref1
Psychosexual Training and the Doctor/Patient Relationship (Ed. R. Skrine) ref1
and sexual fantasies ref1
Sexual Therapy ref1
Purley ref1
Radstock ref1
Rawnsley, Irene ref1
Redditch ref1
Reid, Kay ref1, ref2
Roberton, Alan ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Roberton, Dilla ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Roberton, Jeanie ref1
Roberts, Pat ref1
Rogers, Carl ref1
Roman Catholicism ref1, ref2
Royal United Hospital, Bath ref1
sadomasochism ref1, ref2
safe spaces ref1 see also psychoanalysis/psychotherapy
St Felix School
at Hinton House, Somerset ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5