This study of Sigmund Freud and his complex relationships with the men and women who formed his circle focuses as much on the human dramas involved as on the ideas the participants developed. Roazen draws on interviews, as well as the unreleased papers of his authorized biographer, Ernest Jones.

Examines the theories of Freud, Sullivan, Fromm, Jacobson, and other psychologists regarding interpersonal relationships.

The author presents a passionate argument for a therapeutic practice based on the physician's love for the deeply deprived patient. Ian Suttie, a psychiatrist of the Tavistock clinic in the 1930s, advocates a more optimistic view of human nature than traditional Freudian psychology.

Bollas integrates the contribution of the British School of Object Relations with the fine texture of problems that have arisen in the author's own clinical practice.

This unique text makes object relations and self psychology accessible to readers not familiar with recent psychoanalytic literature. The issues, ideas and controversies of these models of the person are clearly presented and readable.

A social and cultural history of psychoanalysis.