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Encounters is an interesting tribute to the profound personal and professional influence on the author of John Bowlby—and his ideas and way of working—through a supervision relationship lasting from 1984, until Bowlby's death in 1990. It is a relational biography of John Bowlby, an attachment-based book, in which aspects of the author's own developments, his personal and professional challenges—as a child and adolescent psychiatrist coming from Spain to Britain in the 1980s to study psychoanalysis—are interwoven with a history of Bowlby's own personal and professional life. All biographies contain more or less explicit autobiographical elements:
A memoir of someone else by virtue of the fact that you are writing about them because they are important in your life will be part of your autobiography. (Saunders, 2008)
In this case the autobiographical element is made much more explicit, including aspects of the author's experience of the politics and culture of Spain, the significance