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Title Letters to Marjorie Brierley (P18)
Date Range 1950 - 1970
Creator Brierley, Marjorie (1893-1984) psychoanalyst
Extent 1 file (13 items)
Repository Archives of the British Psychoanalytical Society
Abstract Letters received by Marjorie Brierley from psychoanalytic colleagues.

Administrative Information

Administrative/biographical history

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Archival history/source of acquisition

The source of this material is not known. The letters were originally added to the archives' correspondence collection (ref. CBB/F19) but recatalogued as a single collection in 2006.


Content and structure

Scope and Content

Letters received by Marjorie Brierley from psychoanalytic colleagues, regarding personal and professional matters. The authors are as follows:

Anna Freud (two items, sending thanks and greetings); Harry Guntrip (three items, discussing publication matters); Melanie Klein (two items, one a letter of thanks and the other commenting on Brierley's review of Klein's book, Contributions to Psycho-Analysis); Sylvia Payne (three items, discussing personal and psychoanalytic matters, including the work of Melanie Klein and Wilfred Bion); Hannah Ries (one item, letter of thanks); Adrian Stokes (one item, thanking Brierley for her contribution to the formation of the Imago Group).

Also included is a typed manuscript by Masud Khan, entitled 'Strength from Vulnerability. An appreciation of Dr Guntrip's "Schizoid Phenomena, Object Relations and the Self"', which was sent to Brierley by the author.

Accruals

No further accruals are expected.

System of arrangement

The material is arranged by author and then chronologically.


Conditions of access and use

Access conditions

Open for consultation by bona fide researchers, subject to prior arrangement with the archivist and the signing of a reader's undertaking form. Please note that any material from the Bulletin of the British Psychoanalytical Society is available only to members, students and guests of the Society.

Reproduction conditions

Photocopying is carried out at the discretion of the archivist and according to the archives’ photocopying policy, which is available on request. Copies of material still in copyright can be supplied for research use only. Written permission must be obtained from the archivist to publish or reproduce any material held in the archives. It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain any necessary copyright clearance from the copyright holder.

Language(s) of materials

English.

Finding aids

The collection catalogue is published online and a printed copy is available. A database containing abstracts of this correspondence also exists but is not available online.


Allied materials

Related materials

The manuscripts collection (ref. M-G-01) includes a photocopy of the manuscript of The Technique of Psychoanalysis, written by Edward Glover with assistance from Marjorie Brierley. Elsewhere, the Melanie Klein collection at the Wellcome Library includes correspondence between Klein and Brierley, including material related to the Controversial Discussions (ref. PP/KLE).

Publication note

No known publications based on this material.


Notes

None.


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