British Psychoanalysis: New Perspectives in the Independent Tradition is a new and extended edition of The British School of Psychoanalysis: The Independent Tradition, which explored the successes and failures of the early environment; transference and counter-transference in the psychoanalytic encounter; regression in the situation of treatment, and female sexuality. Published in the mid-1980s, it had an important influence on the development of psychoanalysis both in Great Britain and abroad, was translated into several languages and became a central textbook in academic and professional courses.

PART I: AN INDEPENDENT TRADITION Chapter 1: Thirty years later: looking back into the future Gregorio Kohon Chapter 2: A multi-dimensional frame of reference: the Independent tradition Rosine Jozef Perelberg PART II: INTRODUCTION Gregorio Kohon Chapter 3: Prefatory remarks Chapter 4: Notes on the history of the psychoanalytic movement in Great Britain Chapter 5: Countertransference: an Independent view Chapter 6: Concluding remarks PART III: EARLY ENVIRONMENT: SUCCESS AND FAILURE Chapter 7: Psychic life: a new focus on earliest infancy Josh Cohen Chapter 8: The transformational object Christopher Bollas Chapter 9: The concept of cumulative trauma M. Masud R. Khan Chapter 10: Fear of breakdown Donald W. Winnicott PART IV: THE PSYCHOANALYTIC ENCOUNTER: TRANSFERENCE AND COUNTERTRANSFERENCE Chapter 11: Making sense together: new directions in Independent clinical thinking Steven Groarke Chapter 12: `Slouching towards Bethlehem ¿¿ or thinking about the unthinkable in psychoanalysis Nina E.C. Coltart Chapter 13: Elements of the psychoanalytic relationship and their therapeutic implications John Klauber Chapter 14: Affects and the psychoanalytic situation Adam Limentani Chapter 15: The analyst¿s act of freedom as agent of therapeutic change Neville Symington PART V: REGRESSION AND THE ANALYTIC SITUATION Chapter 16: Regression: allowing the future to be re-imagined Hannah Browne Chapter 17: The unobtrusive analyst Michael Balint Chapter 18: Some pressures on the analyst for physical contact during the reliving of an early trauma Patrick J. Casement Chapter 19: Problems of management in the analysis of a hallucinating hysteric Harold Stewart PART VI: FEMALE SEXUALITY Chapter 20: The centrality of sexual difference in Freud: the work of Gregorio Kohon and Juliet Mitchell Megan Virtue Chapter 21: Reflections on Dora: the case of hysteria Gregorio Kohon Chapter 22: The question of femininity and the theory of psychoanalysis Juliet Mitchell

Gregorio Kohon is a Training Analyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society. His psychoanalytic publications include Reflections on the Aesthetic Experience: Psychoanalysis and the Uncanny, published by Routledge in 2016.