This book is based on papers that the author gave to conferences of psychotherapists and psychiatrists in Australia and New Zealand over the past ten years. The author is a well-known psychoanalyst, trained in the British Society, who now lives in Sydney, Australia, and is a member of the Australian Society. In neither Australia nor New Zealand are the roots of organised psychoanalysis particularly strong or well-aged; psychoanalytic ideas are still afforded a sceptical, and sometimes a hostile, hearing. As such, any psychoanalyst of Symington's stature must still beat a pioneer's path through scepticism and misplaced enthusiasm, even amongst professional psychotherapists. Some missionary determination is also necessary