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This is the fifth volume in the International Journal of Psychoanalysis Key Papers Series. Previously published books include The Mind-Brain Relationship, Psychoanalysis and Film, Key Papers on Countertransference and Key Papers on Borderline Disorders. Changing their slant slightly, the publishers have launched a sub-series in the form of decade-by-decade key papers, of which this - papers from the 1950s - is the first.
Why start with the 1950s? In their preface the joint chief editors of the IJPA explain that the 1950s, in their opinion, were a turning-point in the history of psychoanalytic thinking and practice, as the decade also was historically, politically and culturally. World War II caused many European psychoanalysts to emigrate to the United States, where their individual trainings and practices merged with American thinking of the time and, led to an impressive birth of creativity, in particular, to the concepts of egopsychology, of object relations, and to new thinking about the psychoanalytic relationship. In the editors' words, it was a period of the ‘turning of psychoanalytic attention from the exploration of the analysand's intrapsychic experience to mapping out equally relevant psychoanalytic concerns that exist outside the analysand's mind in connection with it’ (p. 1).
The well-known authors are all here, and there are few surprises in the editors' choice: Winnicott, Heimann, Little, Racker, Money-Kyrle, Bion, Segal, Balint, Bowlby, to name but a few. Many of them will be familiar to the British reader, with the exception of a few American-based emigrés