Peter Kutter, ed. Psychoanalysis International: A Guide to the World of Psychoanalysis.: Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt:  Frommann-Holzboog, 1992, 1995, Vol.  1: Europe, Vol.  2: America, Asia, Australia; further European Countries.

These two volumes describe the historical setting and context of psychoanalysis in the various countries where there are groups belonging to the International Psychoanalytic Association. Volume one depicts psychoanalysis in the following countries: Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Finland, France 1893-1965, Germany, East Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Lithuania, The Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland. The second volume deals with Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, India, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay, USA, Venezuela; Psychoanalysis against the Grain: Argentina, Chile, Nicaragua, Cuba, and to complete volume one: Bulgaria, Croatia, France 1965-1994, Greece, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia. Each volume contains a foreword written by the editor, and the first volume also contains a preface by the former president of the International Psychoanalytical Association and an introduction by the editor. I would basically like to emphasise the value of this undertaking and welcome the idea, which was the brainchild of the publisher, Günther Holzboog. It facilitates information retrieval and for many countries completes and extends the descriptions which appeared in the two volumes “Freud und die Folgen” (Freud and the consequences) in the Encyclopedia “Die Psychologie des 20. Jahrhnnderts (The Psychology in Twentieth Century) (Zürich 1976 and 1977).

Peter Kutter is introduced on the dust-jacket of both volumes; first of all as a member of the German Psychoanalytical Association and secondly as a University Professor of Psychoanalysis at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. In the foreword and introduction to volume one, as well as in the foreword to volume two, he sets out his aims and objectives, explaining his understanding of the historical evolution of psychoanalysis and how he thinks