J. Arthur Rank but continued to handle all distribution for the Rank organisation until 1955, when it was renamed J. Arthur Rank Film Distributors. In 1939 Rank consolidated his film production interests in both the Pinewood Film Studios and the Denham Film Studios. In 1938 Rank bought the Odeon Cinemas chain. and the Amalgamated Studios in Elstree, although the latter were never used as film studios by Rank. In 1941, it absorbed the Gaumont British, which owned 251 cinemas, and the Lime Grove Studios, (later owned by the BBC) and bought the Paramount Cinemas chain, so that by 1942 the Rank Organisation owned
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