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In the course of my work on , I came across a substantial pack of correspondence he exchanged with that can be found at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC. Glover, a prolific writer as well as a longstanding office-holder of the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA), has had a bad press associated with his resignation from the British Psycho-Analytical Society in 1944. Even Anna Freud's most detailed biographer could not keep straight the fact that she had resigned from the Training Committee of the British Society only after Glover had himself quit.1 And not surprisingly, given how unsparing of Melanie Klein's thinking Glover had become, her own supporters have been less than kind about his reputation.2 The destruction of Glover's files following his death has not made the job of historical reconstruction easy.
Kubie, although one of psychoanalysis's distinguished thinkers, has also fallen into a kind of limbo, although for different reasons than in the case of Glover. Kubie should now be known for having authored books such as Neurotic Distortion of the Creative Process and Practical and Theoretical Aspects of Psychoanalysis; unofficially Kubie may sometimes be remembered as Tennessee Williams's analyst, but in addition to hundreds of Kubie's individual papers a volume of his selected essays was posthumously published.3 Kubie was notable for having proposed the creation of a wholly new profession of medical psychology that would embrace the humanities as well as the sciences, so that the development of psychoanalysis would not be cut off from either its humanistic or scientific roots.4 Like Glover, Kubie served in multiple official capacities, including the presidency of the New York Psychoanalytic Society. Kubie became thoroughly independent-minded: having helped many of the Continental analysts emigrate to New York, once they were established in power it was possible for them to brush him aside, as the Europeans overwhelmingly tended to cite each