Those who are acquainted with Adam Limentani's original and thought-provoking research into the unconscious significance and the psychic economy of deviant sexuality, drug dependence and delinquency will welcome the appearance of this collection of papers published in different psychoanalytic journals within the last two decades.

Furthermore Limentani situates his research within an autobiographical context that shows us not only his own theoretical development and the various influences that have contributed to it, but also gives a glimpse into the history of the British psychoanalytic movement—whence the title. As a member of the Independent or Middle Group, Limentani is well placed to provide this background to his reflections, in that this group was initially created 'to hold the balance of psychoanalytic opinion between the well entrenched Freudian group and that of the fast-growing Kleinians' (p. 2). Reminding us of the role Freud attributed to idealization from identificatory