Helton Godwin Baynes, also known as ‘Peter’ Baynes, was an English physician, army officer, analytical psychologist and author, who was a friend and early translator into English of Carl Jung.
Background
Baynes was educated at Leighton Park School and then at Trinity College, Cambridge where he read medicine and where he won Blues for Rowing and Swimming two years running. He became a House Physician at St Bartholomew's Hospital for a year. Later he trained in surgery at the English Hospital in Paris. He volunteered to serve in the Balkan War 1912-13 and was head of the Red Crescent mission to Turkey and was decorated by Enver Pasha. After practicing in Bethnal Green he moved to Wisbech in late 1913, leaving the town in 1915. He had established a new practice in the Old Market. He served in the RAMC in France, Mesopotamia and Persia and was mentioned in dispatches. During World War I he became interested in Jung's psychology and was part of a group that formed the Analytical Psychology Club after the war. It was modelled on the club convened by Jung in Zurich. In 1922 Baynes went to Zurich for analysis. That year he started collaborating with Cary Angulo, née Fink in translating Jung. Baynes accompanied Jung on his expedition to East Africa in 1925–26. On his return to the UK, he became one of the chief proponents of the new psychology, and leader of the London club, while others emigrated. Baynes was a friend of the Fordham family and was supportive of them after Mrs. Fordham died leaving teenage children among whom was the future fellow Trinity alumnus and pioneer Jungian analyst, Michael Fordham. Baynes offered him a first brief analysis in 1933, and after Fordham failed to become an assistant to Jung in Zurich, Baynes saw him again for a period before handing him on to Hildegard Kirsch, a Zurich trained psychologist and refugee from Germany.
Personal life
In 1913 he married Rosalind Thornycroft, daughter of Sir William Hamo Thornycroft, their daughter Bridget Rosalind was born in 1914, they divorced in 1921. In 1927 he married Cary De Angulo. She divorced him in 1931 when he became involved with someone else. Baynes died on 6 September, 1943.
Works
Mythology of the soul; a research into the unconscious from schizophrenic dreams and drawings, London: Baillière, Tindall and Cox, 1940.
Analytical psychology and the English mind, and other papers, London: Methuen, 1950.
"Foreword" to Analytical Psychology and the English Mind and Other Papers. London: Methuen and republican. CW 18, 78
Translated into English:
Jung, C. G., tr. Baynes, H. G.. "The Psychological Foundations of Belief in Spirits." Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, XXXI:79, 75–93. Read before a Society meeting, London, 4 July, 1919.
Jung, C. G., & Baynes, H. G.. Psychological Types, or, The Psychology of Individuation. London: Kegan Paul Trench Trubner. and New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1926. The International Library of Psychology, Philosophy and Scientific Method
Jung, C. G., Baynes, H. G., & Baynes, C. F.. Contributions to Analytical Psychology. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
Jung, C. G., tr. Baynes, H. G. & Baynes, C. F. Two essays on analytical psychology. New York, Dodd, Mead and Co.
