Adrian Stephen

In 1914 Stephen married Karin Costelloe,[3] a philosophy graduate, by then Fellow of Newnham College and expert on Henri Bergson.

[4] Early in the war he was active in the Union of Democratic Control, then later was Honorary Treasurer of the National Council Against Conscription.

Towards the end of the war, Adrian, Karin, James and Alix Strachey all became interested in psychoanalysis.

The Stephens trained medically at the request of Ernest Jones, both being analysed initially by James Glover; they qualified in the late 1920s,[1] Adrian completing his analysis with Ella Freeman Sharpe.

[5] In 1936, Stephen decided to recount in detail the Dreadnought hoax, in which he had taken part a quarter of a century earlier, completing an account published by the Hogarth Press.