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This is an unusual and ingenious publication. Printed on white card, it folds out into a ten-page wall chart, each page (10 cm2) corresponding to a decade in the history of psychoanalysis. The reverse side contains first an introduction and a key to the timeline which sets out the authors' approach and then seven pages of narrative history, set out by decade, amplifying the information contained on the chart. The chart uses a colour code to identify the different theoretical tendencies, and their main geographical locations, through which the 20th century development of the field is set out. Each tendency is represented by the principal publications associated with it, and by psychoanalytic events, such as the foundation of leading clinics and institutes. The colour-coded tendencies and locations are Jung and Jungians (Existential Psychoanalysts, mostly Swiss; British; [after ] Kleinians and [after ] Independents; French; Lacan and Lacanians; non-Lacanians; Freud and Freudians [after ], mostly in England and America; Adler; Rank; Social and Cultural Theorists; the Budapest School; [after ] Interpersonalism, Relationalism. In the middle of the chart, fully appropriately, lies Freud himself, with The Interpretation of Dreams cited as the inaugural work. It is suggested that vertical movement down the chart roughly signifies differences between more intrapsychic and more environmentalist approaches, with the middle part of chart, where Freud and the Freudians are located interpreted as a synthesis of the two. International Psychoanalytic Congresses and Presidents, and major world events, are set out chronologically at the base of the chart. Not a centimetre has been wasted.
The authors have succeeded in presenting a great deal of information in a legible way, and in a way which is pleasing to the eye. This represents a considerable achievement of graphic design, as well as of concise selection, summary and synthesis of psychoanalytic work over its full range. As this pu