Dimensions
152 x 229 x 14mm
Nina Coltart's final book is an inspiring collection of classic papers that embody the practice of English psychoanalysis in the independent tradition. Containing wisdom to be enjoyed and reflected upon for the trainee and experienced practitioner alike. This reissue of a classic work contains the original foreword from Christopher Bollas and a brand-new foreword from Dr Philip Kime. '...if 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, Rycroft's Imagination and Reality, Khan's The Privacy of the Self, and Marion Milner's opus. 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 place a beautifully rendered conjuring of sensibility and 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 AUTHOR: Nina Coltart was "one of the most admired and liked psychoanalysts in Britain. For 35 years she was an active member of the British and international psychoanalytic community and she played a major role in extending the influence of analytic ideas outside that world." (A. H. Brafman, "Obituary: Nina Coltart", Independent, 18 August 1997)
