Edward Glover, according to this biography, is one of the neglected pioneers and champions of psychoanalysis in Britain. Born in 1888, he underwent medical training at the University of Glasgow, and entered analysis in the early 1920s with Karl Abraham at the newly-formed Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute. Glover was Secretary of the International Psychoanalytic Association from 1934 to 1944, the year in which he resigned from the British Association following the acrimonious disputes that shook British psychoanalysis over the work of Melanie Klein. He nevertheless remained active within the IPA, owing to his eligibility as a full member of the Swiss Society. He wrote various papers and books, some on analytic technique that are still apparently well regarded in the USA, although less so in Britain, where his contribution has been largely forgotten. Glover also held numerous powerful offices within the early psychoanalytic movement: he was