Marjorie Flowers Brierley (24 March 1893 - 21 April 1984) was a pioneer of psychoanalysis in Britain, and helped chair the Controversial discussions of 1942 which shaped the subsequent history of the British Psychoanalytical Society.[1]

Biography

Marjorie Flowers Ellis was born in London Borough of Lewisham.[2] She completed a 1st class honours degree in psychology at the University College London in 1921, and went on to obtain medical qualifications in 1928.[3] She married William Broadhurst Brierley in 1922.[2]

Training and contributions

Brierley began her affiliation with the British Psychoanalytical Society in 1927.[2] She went through a double training analysis of four years from 1927 onwards.[4] She became a Full Member of the British Psychoanalytical Society in 1930 and a Training and Supervising Analyst in 1933.[3] She retired from practice in 1944.

Significant among the eleven papers Brierley published between 1932 and 1947,[5] were her contributions on female gender and early development, and on the nature of the affect.[6] Her proposal of a "temporary armistice" in the heated debates of the wartime Society was significant in paving the way for their ultimate resolution.[7]

Selected writings

  • ___'Specific Determinants in Feminine Development', International Journal of Psychoanalysis XVII (1936)
  • ___'Affects in Theory and Practice' XVIII (1937)
  • ___'A Prefatory Note on Internalized Objects and Depression' XX (1939)
  • ___Trends in Psycho-Analysis (1951)

See also

References

  1. ↑ B. Maddox, Freud's Wizard (2006) p. 148
  2. 1 2 3 "Women Psychoanalysts in Great Britain". www.psychoanalytikerinnen.de. Retrieved 23 September 2021.
  3. 1 2 "Marjorie Brierley | Institute of Psychoanalysis". psychoanalysis.org.uk. Retrieved 23 September 2021.
  4. ↑ A. Hayman, What Do Our Terms Mean? (2013) p. 69-70
  5. ↑ A. Hayman, What Do Our Terms Mean? (2013) p. 70
  6. ↑ O. Fenichel, The Psychoanalytic Theory of Neurosis (1946) p. 21, p. 90 and p. 600
  7. ↑ A. Hayman, What Do Our Terms mean? (2013) p. 71

Further reading

  • Ruth Stein, Psychoanalytic Theories of Affect (1999)
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