Karin Stephen

Karin Stephen (née Costelloe; 10 March 1889 – 12 December 1953) was a British psychoanalyst and psychologist.

[1] The relationship between her parents was difficult, and her mother left her husband when Karin and her sister Rachel were very young.

She then spent a year at Bryn Mawr College where she began to study philosophy and psychology.

[3][4] The three other women were Gwyneth Bebb, who the action was named after, Maud Crofts, and Lucy Nettlefold.

They became interested in the work of Sigmund Freud and after the war, the couple trained as doctors in order to practice psychoanalysis.