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{{Short description|Canadian anthropologist & psychoanalyst}}
'''Elizabeth Spillius''' (née '''Bott'''; March 3, 1924 – July 4, 2016)<ref>{{viaf|39463868}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://matangitonga.to/2016/07/13/chance-visit-led-important-study-tongan-society-elizabeth-bott-spillius-nua-1924-2016|title=Chance visit led to important study of Tongan Society by Elizabeth Bott Spillius (Nua) 1924-2016 |author=Fonua, Mary Lyn |work= Matangi Tonga |date=13 July 2016 |publisher=Vava'u Press|accessdate=24 January 2018}}</ref> was a Canadian-English anthropologist, [[sociology of the family|sociologist]], and [[Melanie Klein|Kleinian]] psychoanalyst.
'''Elizabeth Spillius''' (née '''Bott''' (March 3, 1924 – July 4, 2016)<ref>{{viaf|39463868}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://matangitonga.to/2016/07/13/chance-visit-led-important-study-tongan-society-elizabeth-bott-spillius-nua-1924-2016|title=Chance visit led to important study of Tongan Society by Elizabeth Bott Spillius (Nua) 1924-2016 |author=Fonua, Mary Lyn |work= Matangi Tonga |date=13 July 2016 |publisher=Vava'u Press|accessdate=24 January 2018}}</ref> was a Canadian-English anthropologist, [[sociology of the family|sociologist]], and [[Melanie Klein|Kleinian]] psychoanalyst.


==Life==
==Life==
Born to [[Canadians|Canadian]] psychologists [[Helen McMurchie Bott|Helen Bott]] and [[Edward Alexander Bott]],<ref name="FreemanWellman1995">{{cite journal|url=http://moreno.ss.uci.edu/71.pdf|title=A Note on the Ancestral Toronto Home of Social Network Analysis|last=Freeman|first=Linton C. | authorlink = Linton Freeman|author2=[[Barry Wellman]]|year=1995|volume= 18 |issue= 2|journal=[[Connections (journal)|Connections]]|pages=15|accessdate=10 September 2014}}</ref> Elizabeth Bott studied psychology at the [[University of Toronto]] and anthropology at the [[University of Chicago]], where she gained her MA in 1949. She then travelled to London to work in anthropology at the [[London School of Economics]] and the [[Tavistock Institute of Human Relations]].<ref name=psych>{{cite web | url=http://www.psychoanalytikerinnen.de/greatbritain_biographies.html#Spillius | title=Women psychoanalysts in Great Britain: Elizabeth Bott Spillius | publisher=Psychoanalytikerinnen | work=Biografisches Lexikon | accessdate=January 25, 2018|first=Brigitte|last=Nölleke|date=December 18, 2017}}</ref>
Born to [[Canadians|Canadian]] psychologists [[Helen McMurchie Bott|Helen Bott]] and [[Edward Alexander Bott]],<ref name="FreemanWellman1995">{{cite journal|url=http://moreno.ss.uci.edu/71.pdf|title=A Note on the Ancestral Toronto Home of Social Network Analysis|last=Freeman|first=Linton C.|authorlink=Linton Freeman|author2=[[Barry Wellman]]|year=1995|volume=18|issue=2|journal=[[Connections (journal)|Connections]]|pages=15|accessdate=10 September 2014|archive-date=4 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304044214/http://moreno.ss.uci.edu/71.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> Elizabeth Bott studied psychology at the [[University of Toronto]] and anthropology at the [[University of Chicago]], where she gained her MA in 1949. She then travelled to London to work in anthropology at the [[London School of Economics]] and the [[Tavistock Institute of Human Relations]].<ref name=psych>{{cite web | url=http://www.psychoanalytikerinnen.de/greatbritain_biographies.html#Spillius | title=Women psychoanalysts in Great Britain: Elizabeth Bott Spillius | publisher=Psychoanalytikerinnen | work=Biografisches Lexikon | accessdate=January 25, 2018|first=Brigitte|last=Nölleke|date=December 18, 2017}}</ref>


Often regarded as a member of the [[Manchester Group (anthropology)|Manchester Group]] of anthropologists,<ref>[http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/archive/list/item/?id=5631&year=2010&month=04 “Manchester Group” of researchers honoured], 14 April 2010.</ref> her best-known work was ''Family and Social Network'' (1957), based on her 1956 PhD with working-class families in [[East London]], in which she formulated what was subsequently labelled the [[Bott Hypothesis]]: that the density of a husband and wife's separate social networks was positively associated with marital role segregation. The first results of her seminal work have been presented in front of a [[UNESCO]] seminar under the title ''Urban Families: Conjugal roles and social networks'' (1954) and subsequently have been published in 1955.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Bott|first=Elizabeth|date=2016-04-22|title=Urban Families: Conjugal Roles and Social Networks|journal=[[Human Relations]]|language=en|volume=8|issue=4|pages=345–384|doi=10.1177/001872675500800401}}</ref> Therein she has also conceptualized different aspects of labour and task-division between couples and examined the supporting function of the environment relevant to current [[co-parenting]] research.
Often regarded as a member of the [[Manchester Group (anthropology)|Manchester Group]] of anthropologists,<ref>[http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/archive/list/item/?id=5631&year=2010&month=04 “Manchester Group” of researchers honoured], 14 April 2010.</ref> her best-known work was ''Family and Social Network'' (1957), based on her 1956 PhD with working-class families in [[East London]], in which she formulated what was subsequently labelled the [[Bott Hypothesis]]: that the density of a husband and wife's separate social networks was positively associated with marital role segregation. The first results of her seminal work have been presented in front of a [[UNESCO]] seminar under the title ''Urban Families: Conjugal roles and social networks'' (1954) and subsequently have been published in 1955 and 1957.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Bott|first=Elizabeth|date=2016-04-22|title=Urban Families: Conjugal Roles and Social Networks|journal=[[Human Relations]]|language=en|volume=8|issue=4|pages=345–384|doi=10.1177/001872675500800401|s2cid=145706446 }}</ref> Therein she has also conceptualized different aspects of labour and task-division between couples and examined the supporting function of the environment relevant to current [[co-parenting]] research.
[[File:Spillius, Elizabeth 2016.jpg|thumb|150px|Grave of Elizabeth Spillius in [[Highgate Cemetery]]]]
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In 1956, she began training analysis as a Kleinian psychoanalyst with Lois Munro. From 1958 to 1960, she carried out anthropological fieldwork in [[Tonga]] with her husband James. She became a member of the [[British Psychoanalytical Society]] in 1964, and a training and supervisory analyst in 1975.<ref name=psych/>


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From 1988 to 1998, she was general editor of the [[Routledge]] series ''New Library of Psychoanalysis''. She has written several works of introduction to the work of [[Melanie Klein]].<ref name=psych/>
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In 1956, she began training analysis as a Kleinian psychoanalyst with [[Lois Munro]]. From 1958 to 1960, she carried out anthropological fieldwork in [[Tonga]] with her husband [[James Spillius]]. She became a member of the [[British Psychoanalytical Society]] in 1964, and a training and supervisory analyst in 1975.<ref name=psych/>

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From 1988 to 1998, she was general editor of the [[Routledge]] series [[New Library of Psychoanalysis]]. She has written several works of introduction to the work of [[Melanie Klein]].<ref name=psych/>


She died on 4 July 2016 and was buried on the eastern side of [[Highgate Cemetery]].
==Works==
==Works==
Elizabeth Bott. 1957. ''Family and Social Network''. London: Tavistock.
* Elizabeth Bott. 1957. ''Family and Social Network''. London: Tavistock.
* (ed.) ''Melanie Klein today: developments in theory and practice'', Tavistock/Routledge, 1987. '''New Library of Psychoanalysis''' 7-8.
* (ed.) ''Melanie Klein today: developments in theory and practice'', Tavistock/Routledge, 1987. '''New Library of Psychoanalysis''' 7-8.
* (ed. with Michael Feldman) ''Psychic equilibrium and psychic change : selected papers of [[Betty Joseph]]'', Tavistock/Routledge, 1989. '''New Library of Psychoanalysis''' 9
* (ed. with Michael Feldman) ''Psychic equilibrium and psychic change : selected papers of [[Betty Joseph]]'', Tavistock/Routledge, 1989. '''New Library of Psychoanalysis''' 9
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==External links==
==External links==
* [http://www.therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0307-bott-elizabeth-afterwards-mrs-james-spillius-qcollectionq-ms-307/ <nowiki>Bott, Elizabeth, [afterwards] Mrs James Spillius "collection" (MS 307)</nowiki>]
* [http://www.therai.org.uk/archives-and-manuscripts/manuscript-contents/0307-bott-elizabeth-afterwards-mrs-james-spillius-qcollectionq-ms-307/ <nowiki>Bott, Elizabeth, [afterwards] Mrs James Spillius "collection" (MS 307)</nowiki>]
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* {{cite journal|last1=Milton|first1=J|title=Obituary for Elizabeth Jane Bott Spillius.|journal=The International Journal of Psycho-Analysis|volume=98|issue=3|pages=927–934|date=23 March 2017|doi=10.1111/1745-8315.12654|pmid=28332709|s2cid=206930840}}
* {{worldcat id|lccn-n87-936299}}
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* {{cite journal|last1=Milton|first1=J|title=Obituary for Elizabeth Jane Bott Spillius.|journal=The International Journal of Psycho-analysis|volume=98|issue=3|pages=927–934|date=23 March 2017|doi=10.1111/1745-8315.12654|pmid=28332709}}


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Elizabeth Spillius (née Bott (March 3, 1924 – July 4, 2016)[1][2] was a Canadian-English anthropologist, sociologist, and Kleinian psychoanalyst.

Life

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Born to Canadian psychologists Helen Bott and Edward Alexander Bott,[3] Elizabeth Bott studied psychology at the University of Toronto and anthropology at the University of Chicago, where she gained her MA in 1949. She then travelled to London to work in anthropology at the London School of Economics and the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations.[4]

Often regarded as a member of the Manchester Group of anthropologists,[5] her best-known work was Family and Social Network (1957), based on her 1956 PhD with working-class families in East London, in which she formulated what was subsequently labelled the Bott Hypothesis: that the density of a husband and wife's separate social networks was positively associated with marital role segregation. The first results of her seminal work have been presented in front of a UNESCO seminar under the title Urban Families: Conjugal roles and social networks (1954) and subsequently have been published in 1955 and 1957.[6] Therein she has also conceptualized different aspects of labour and task-division between couples and examined the supporting function of the environment relevant to current co-parenting research.

Grave of Elizabeth Spillius in Highgate Cemetery

In 1956, she began training analysis as a Kleinian psychoanalyst with Lois Munro. From 1958 to 1960, she carried out anthropological fieldwork in Tonga with her husband James. She became a member of the British Psychoanalytical Society in 1964, and a training and supervisory analyst in 1975.[4]

From 1988 to 1998, she was general editor of the Routledge series New Library of Psychoanalysis. She has written several works of introduction to the work of Melanie Klein.[4]

She died on 4 July 2016 and was buried on the eastern side of Highgate Cemetery.

Works

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  • Elizabeth Bott. 1957. Family and Social Network. London: Tavistock.
  • (ed.) Melanie Klein today: developments in theory and practice, Tavistock/Routledge, 1987. New Library of Psychoanalysis 7-8.
  • (ed. with Michael Feldman) Psychic equilibrium and psychic change : selected papers of Betty Joseph, Tavistock/Routledge, 1989. New Library of Psychoanalysis 9
  • (ed. with a preface) Melanie Klein in Berlin: her first psychoanalyses of children by Claudia Frank. Routledge, 2009.

References

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  1. ^ VIAF 39463868
  2. ^ Fonua, Mary Lyn (13 July 2016). "Chance visit led to important study of Tongan Society by Elizabeth Bott Spillius (Nua) 1924-2016". Matangi Tonga. Vava'u Press. Retrieved 24 January 2018.
  3. ^ Freeman, Linton C.; Barry Wellman (1995). "A Note on the Ancestral Toronto Home of Social Network Analysis" (PDF). Connections. 18 (2): 15. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 10 September 2014.
  4. ^ a b c Nölleke, Brigitte (18 December 2017). "Women psychoanalysts in Great Britain: Elizabeth Bott Spillius". Biografisches Lexikon. Psychoanalytikerinnen. Retrieved 25 January 2018.
  5. ^ “Manchester Group” of researchers honoured, 14 April 2010.
  6. ^ Bott, Elizabeth (22 April 2016). "Urban Families: Conjugal Roles and Social Networks". Human Relations. 8 (4): 345–384. doi:10.1177/001872675500800401. S2CID 145706446.
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