The outcome of the Controversial Discussions is a ‘gentleman’s agreement' – sometimes known more aptly as the ‘lady’s agreement’, as it is arrived at by Sylvia Payne, Anna Freud and Melanie Klein. It institutionalizes three Groups within the Society, and changes significantly the way training in the Institute is organised and thought about.
'1. There should be one Training Committee responsible for all matters regarding the selection, training, and qualification of students.
2. Students could opt to take Course A or Course B, the latter being run according to the wishes of Miss Freud's Group.
3. Lectures and seminars other than those on technique would be common to all students. 4. Students would attend clinical and technical seminars taken by analysts from their own course. They could attend as guests those taken by members of the other course.
5. In the third year all students would attend clinical seminars run by teachers from Course A and Course B.
6. The first Supervisor must be chosen from the Student's own group, the second Supervisor of Candidates in analysis with a Kleinian or a member of the ‘B’ group, should be selected from those who were independent of both, that is, from a non-Kleinian member of Course A – the Middle group.' (King and Steiner, 1991, pp. 906-07).