ABSTRACT
The chapter opens with a letter from Joan to Klein asking her to explain the behaviour of the allies in wartime. The chapter title also describes the war in the British Society. The arrival of Anna Freud, and German and Viennese psychoanalytic refugees, exacerbated splits in the British Society, particularly between the Freudians and the Kleinians. There were also discontents about the way the Society was run. Initially, Joan tried to address the envy of members who were creative. However, Melitta Schmideberg, Klein’s daughter, and her analyst Edward Glover mounted an insanely hostile attack on Klein and her followers. The situation was saved by Sylvia Payne, who told Melitta she could be accused of slander. Payne also negotiated a tripartite training scheme for the Society which (more or less) satisfied everyone except Glover and Melitta, who left the Society.
