This book was first published in 1935, a few days after its author's death. An American edition was brought out in 1952, and it was then republished by Pelican in 1961. Over the years it has acquired a fairly classical status as a pioneering critique of psychoanalysis. The book contains, in a smouldering way, many remarkably modern notions on the nature of psychotherapy. I propose to tease some of these out.

I should add that it is significant — synchronicity? — that in the same year as Free Association have republished Suttie, The Clinical Diary of