Michael Fordham

British Jungian analyst who founded the developmental school of analytical psychology — arguing that the Self is present from birth and that individuation begins in infancy through a process of deintegration and reintegration — integrating Jungian theory with object relations and child analytic work.

Extended analytical psychology into child development — contra the Zurich view that individuation is a second-half-of-life process, Fordham argued that the Self is present from the start and that childhood development is itself an individuation process — creating the developmental school that bridges Jung and Winnicott.