Trigant Burrow

Nicholas Trigant Burrow (1875 to 1950) was an American psychoanalyst, psychiatrist and psychologist who, alongside Joseph H. Pratt and Paul Schilder, is counted a founder of group analysis in the United States, and who coined the term group therapy. After a medical degree at the University of Virginia in 1900 and a Ph.D. in psychology at Johns Hopkins University in 1909, he underwent a year-long analysis with Carl Jung in Zurich and practised as a psychoanalyst in Baltimore until 1926. He was president of the American Psychoanalytic Association in 1924 and 1925 but was expelled from it in 1932, after his innovations in group work led to a breach with orthodox psychoanalysis. In 1926 he founded the Lifwynn Foundation, where he developed the idea of psychoanalysis as a social science, and he is credited with the concept of neurodynamics.