Dr. Edward Glover, psychoanalyst, scholar (1888 -- 1972) | NCP-LA

Edward Glover, a British psychoanalyst. Among his most lasting achievements are his roles as co-founder  of the Psychopatic Clinic (renamed the Portman Clinic in 1937) and the Institute for the Study and Treatment of Deliquency, joint founder of the British Journal of Criminology and co-founder  of the British Society of Criminology. He was one-time chairman of the medical section of the British Psychological Society. He is publicly remembered  in the annual Clover lecture, delivered under the auspices of the Portman Clinic.

Between 1924 and 1939, Glover published  his first book as well as some eighteen articles on psychoanalytic subjects spacing from Notes on Oral Character through The Screeing Function of Traumatic Memories to A note to Idealisation. Glover's Lectures on Technique in Psychoanalysis (1927 - 1928) would seem to have offered a dry, neutral, asceptic classical psychoanalysis. Thus on the question of whether analysis should close with a "cooling - off" period,  he followed the classical line that "to the very end  we continue the analytic process", Glover sternly continues, "In the first session we laid down the association rule and this remains in force to the last minute of the last session."

Similarly on the question of theearly "deep interpretation" favored  for example by Melanie Klein, Glover argued, "Once the analyst departs from sparing provisional  interpretations, he not ony disturbs  the listeniing situation but has made it difficult  to re-established it."

Edward Glover  was a combative intellectual personality who took a principled stand on many of the variegated  controversies of the first psychoanalytic half-century, promoting a 'pure Freudianism'.

In the early 1920s, when Karl Abraham 'feared that Ferenczi and, far worse, Rank, were caught in an act of "scientific regression". Englsih psychoanalysts, notably Ernest Jones  adn the brothers Edward and James Glover, wholly agreed with Abraham.

In the 1920s, when Freud made something of a minority stand in support  of Lay analysis, some of the British psychoanalysts, among them  Edward Glover and John Rickman, saw  no harm in nonmedical therapists conducting analysis, provided one kept therapy "shrply divide from diagnosis: the latter must be left to medically qualified persons."

In the 1930s, Glover found himself increasingly opposed to the innovations and influence of Melanie Klein, who found from 1934 onwards , a hostility within the British Psycho-Analytic Society led by Glover who was scientific secretary of the British Society -- hostility which lasted for the best part of a decade until the vituperative opposition from Edward Glover and Melitta Schmideberg had vanished when Glover gave up his membership of the British Psycho-Analytic  Society the 24th January 1944, confirmed  the enxt 1st February.