A collection of papers from the International Journal of Psychoanalysis that were originally published in the 1920s. The papers are divided into their subject matter and contextualised through comprehensive and clear introductions. This is an essential anthology of classic papers.
About the Author, R.D. Hinshelwood
R.D. Hinshelwood is a Member of the British Psychoanalytic Society, and a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. He was previously Clinical Director of The Cassel Hospital and is currently Professor at the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex. He is the author of A Dictionary of Kleinian Thought (1989), and Clinical Klein (1995). He has written widely on therapeutic communities, and the psychoanalysis of organizations, Thinking about Institutions (2001); and published a book on psychoanalysis and ethics, Therapy or Coercion (1997).
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