This book deals with substantial issues in the development of psychoanalysis. It includes significant papers on: child analysis, sublimation, female sexuality, active technique, character and libidinal development, super-ego, the reality principle, and lay analysis.

R.D. Hinshelwood is a member of the British Psychoanalytical Society, and currently holds the post of Professor of Psychoanalysis at the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, and previously was Clinical Director of the Cassel Hospital in Richmond. He is a past Chair of the Association of Therapeutic Communities. Professor Hinshelwood has written extensively on psychoanalysis and founded the 'International Journal of Therapeutic Communities' (now 'Therapeutic Communities') in 1980 and the 'British Journal of Psychotherapy' in 1984.

SERIES PREFACE The International Journal of Psychoanalysis Key Papers Series -- Introduction to the journal in the 1920s -- Child analysis -- Phantasy and sublimation -- Female sexuality -- Active technique -- Character formation -- Super-ego -- The sense of reality -- Lay analysis