Pearl King obituary

Psychoanalyst who was able to free individuals and institutions from conflictThe psychoanalyst Pearl King, who has died aged 96, was renowned for her capacity to challenge received assumptions in order to free individuals and institutions from conflict and the dead hand of the past. As well as a clinician, leader and administrator, Pearl was a historian and archivist of her discipline. In each of these roles, understanding history was essential to her view of the present: her most important book