Peter Joffre Swales (5 June 1948 – 15 April 2022) was a Welsh "guerilla historian of psychoanalysis and former assistant to the Rolling Stones".
[1] A 1998 article in The New York Times Magazine noted his "remarkable detective work over the last 25 years, revealing the true identities of several early patients of Freud's who had been known only by their pseudonyms.
[4] Swales "became notorious when, in 1981, he maintained that Freud had had a secret affair with his wife Martha’s younger sister Minna Bernays ... and had arranged for her to have an abortion after she became pregnant".
[7][8] In 1998, Swales discovered the true identity of the pseudonymous "Sybil", who was alleged to have had multiple personalities.
He had moved there from Mott Street in lower Manhattan, where he had lived for the previous 35 years.