As the subtitle indicates, Reason and Passion is a tribute to the long and productive professional life of Hanna Segal. An articulate spokesperson and creative leader of the contemporary Kleinians, Segal is feted here for her contributions to analytic theory and practice by a group of leading psychoanalysts influenced and inspired by her work. (Her contributions to applied analysis are celebrated in a companion volume referred to, but regrettably not named, in the editor's introduction.)

I found Bell's Introductory Essay to be among the most useful and satisfying chapters in the book. A brief biographical sketch highlights the political and intellectual passion and commitment that marked Segal's formative years and has continued throughout her life. Coming of age in a politically active, left-wing family of Polish intellectuals