Later years

After the death in 1988 of his second wife, Frieda (Hoyle, née Rothwell), Fordham moved to a Quaker community in Chalfont St Peter Buckinghamshire, where he continued a small practice, welcomed visitors and followed cricket. He died there on 14 April 1995, in his 90th year.

Fordham's theoretical contributions

The primary self

In 1947 Fordham proposed a distinct theory of the primary self to describe the state of the psyche of neonates, characterised by

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