Synopsis
British psychoanalyst Coltart presents ten papers written during the past few years. Expecting this to be her last book, the title paper looks back over 30 years of practice to sift out what she has retained from her beginnings and what she has left behind. Other titles include "The Man with Two Mot
From the Publisher
This book is for the novice, it will inspire themif this is her final book, she has left the best for last. Psychoanalysts trained within the Independent Group are often asked by psychoanalysts and psychotherapists abroad which book they should read to get a feel for the way Independent psychoanalysts think and work. In the past one has referred to Winnicott's Playing and Reality (1971), Rycroft's lmagination and Reality (1968), Khan's The Privacy of the Self (1974), and Marion Milner's opusher several autobiographical studies and The Hands of the Living God (1959) are an unparalleled accomplishment and, as a literary movement, are the best expression of that independent thought "typical" of this psychoanalytic sensibility. But if we are to have one book, this is it. We may say: "Here, you will find it here." This work is a literary spirit of placea beautifully rendered conjuring of sensibilityand to my mind it is the single best expression of the English psychoanalyst of independent persuasion we are ever likely to have. from the Foreword by Christopher Bollas
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