ABSTRACT
Dr. Marjorie Brierley started psychoanalytic training in 1927, the year before her medical qualification. She already had a first class honours degree in psychology from University College, and she had had four years' analysis, two from Flugel and two from Edward Glover, between 1922 and 1927. Subsequently, as a member of the new Training Committee that grew out of all these deliberations, Brierley played an important part in the new arrangements dividing the training between two groups, so that the Society was able not to split. By contrast, Brierley was accorded a notable place in the history of the concept, by some of the main speakers on "Affects and the Psycho-Analytic Situation", the central theme of the International Congress in Jerusalem in 1977. In true Brierley fashion, she explains that she is not putting it that this is the case. She is illustrating one of the many "still unresolved problems of instinct".
