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In at least one respect this book is unique. It is the only book, to our knowledge, which is largely put together by students in training in a psychoanalytic organization and by their associates. The founder of the Northern Ireland Association for the Study of Psychoanalysis, Thomas Freeman, contributes two chapters. The first part of the book, ‘Centres of psychoanalysis’, includes an essay by Jean Murray on Anna Freud, a critical examination of the clinical foundation and explanatory concepts of the theories of Melanie Klein and W.R.D. Fairbairn by Thomas Freeman, an introduction to the role of the concept of transference in the psychoanalytic process by Ruth Freeman, and discussions of clinical aspects of countertransference by Siobhan O'Connor. In Part 2, ‘Peripheries of psychoanalysis’, Thomas Freeman outlines a psychoanalytic approach to the treatment of the schizophrenias in hospital practice, and Ruth Freeman discusses a fascinating case of the ‘burning mouth syndrome’. Three essays, by Peter Torney, Ronnie Bailie and Richard Ekins, discuss psychoanalysis in relation to the study of culture and society, examining, respectively, religion, literature (Henry James' The Turn of the Screw) and cinema.