Nicholas Trigant Burrow (September 7, 1875 – May 24, 1950) was an American psychoanalyst, psychiatrist, psychologist, and, alongside Joseph H. Pratt and Paul Schilder, founder of group analysis in the United States.
The same year Burrow traveled with his family to Zurich in order to undergo a year-long Freudian analysis by Jung.,[1] He would later help to popularise Freud and Jung's ideas on images in particular.
Until his death Burrow acted as the research director for the foundation and devoted particular attention to the physiological substructures of harmonious and rivaling participants within groups and societies, but also between states.
Experimenting with reversing the roles of analyzer and patient, as well as with mutual analysis,[5] Burrow and Shield became convinced that both displayed blind spots, adherence to social conventions and considerable utilization of defense mechanisms.
Both invited previous patients, relatives, and colleagues, including the Swiss Psychiatrist, Hans Syz, to sit in on some group sessions.
His criticism of the modern cult of individuality, and of the civilised preference for social over biological needs, led him to stress the communal elements in man's thinking and consciousness.