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Whether or not they always agreed with him, all the many people who have worked with Tom Main during his time with the British Army in World War II, at the Cassel Hospital, which he was elected to direct immediately afterwards and where he stayed for 30 years, or in the Institute for Psycho-Sexual Medicine of which he was then made Life President, have been profoundly affected by his example. His tolerant but forceful charisma, the intellectual cogency and practical effectiveness of his ideas and what I can only call his therapeutic voice, left their mark on the half-dozen outstanding psychiatrists who led the innovations in psychiatry during World War II. His influence world-wide has grown with the years. His career models what one would expect of an analytical social psychiatrist. A brilliant presenter, he did not espouse being a writer. One or two of his papers have become famous, but the kernel of his broad message and its deep coherence over a wide array of activities will become extensively known only now after the publication of this, his one book. (A less modest title might have been Thinking Out and Opening up a Comprehensive Psychoanalytic Social Psychiatry.) He died very soon after its publication, of a rapid liver