Abstract
Mary Barkas, a forgotten pioneer in psychiatry and psychoanalysis, was a prodigy from New Zealand who studied medicine in London and went into psychiatry. The restrictions on women doctors prompted her to become an analyst, having a training analysis with Otto Rank in Vienna in 1922, meeting Freud and other figures. In 1924 she was the only woman appointed at the new Maudsley Hospital that was to have such influence on British psychiatry. Mary Barkas’ achievements as a woman in psychiatry and psychoanalysis are substantial. Her Vienna summer is a valuable contribution to our record of a period that is getting lost in time.
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