MGM-British Studios Meanwhile, Amalgamated Studios Ltd constructed a large studio on the north side of Elstree Way between 1935 and 1937. A January 1937 deal for eight films to be made for the American studio Columbia Pictures soon collapsed. The company was unable to meet the cost of building work, and sold the facility to the Rank Organisation, which was not interested in using the studios itself, but wanted to stop John Maxwell's rival British International Pictures (BIP) from being able to compete more effectively with its own new Pinewood Studios. During the war, the studios were leased from Rank by the
Otto Rank social work profession, eventually translating both "Will Therapy" and "Truth and Reality" from German to English as well as writing one of the first biographies of Rank and his work. In addition, it was Jessie Taft and Frederick Allen's work at the Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic, that introduced Carl Rogers, then a psychologist in the Child Study Department of the Rochester Society for the Prevention of Cruelty Children, to "relationship therapy" as the practical application of Rank's ideas. In 1936 Carl Rogers, who eventually became the most influential psychologist in America after William James, invited Otto Rank to give a