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Landscapes of the Dark is a book that really faces clinical problems and analytical case histories through an authentic Ferenczian quality updated to nowadays. Referred to Enid Balint for his training analysis and supervised by Paula Heimann, Harold Stewart and Pearl King, its Author Jonathan Sklar, psychiatrist, training and supervising psychoanalyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society and from 2007 to 2011 Vice President of the European Psychoanalytic Federation, belongs to the Independent Group tradition and is a direct heir of Sándor Ferenczi's and Michael Balint's legacy of thought. Thanks to his analysis with Enid Balint, there is a strand of Winnicott (who was Enid Balint's second analyst) in Sklar.
As Christopher Bollas writes in the Introduction, Sklar is first of all a “character analyst”, one who works in his treatments on how the patient's character affects the emotional experience of the analyst, step by step deducting from these impressions which could have been the early environment of his patients and then the specific characteristic features of their mind, internal world and identity. The main psychoanalytical task pursued by Sklar is trying to understand the effects of the personalities of the parents on the self of his patients and the resulting basic faults connected to the many types of infantile trauma they have lived.