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Comentarios sobre ‘Elementos de Psicoanálisis’ [Commentary on Elements of Psycho-Analysis]. By . Madrid: Instituto Europeo de Estudios de Psicoterapia Psicoanalítica. Colección Obra de Jorge Thomas. 1995. Pp. 278.
Dr Jorge Thomas was an experienced consultant at the Tavistock Clinic and training analyst member of the British Psycho-Analytical Society, as well as the co-founder of the Instituto Europeo de Estudios de Psicoterapia Psicoanalítica [European Institute of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Studies] (IEEPP), where he also taught. These volumes are a compilation of the fortnightly lectures he gave at the Institute in Madrid over the years until his death in May 1994.
The IEEPP pays tribute to its master in these books, which are based on transcribed recordings of his lectures. However, perhaps the shock of Dr Thomas's sudden death resulted in over-hasty publication, as the devotion of a little more time to thorough revision of the material might have paid dividends. For instance, a quick glance at the introduction to the commentary on Elements of Psycho-Analysis already reveals a number of mistakes, such as the mis-spelling of its author's name. Again, the introductory letter from Dr Thomas's widow has been left in the original language and not translated for the benefit of Spanish-speaking readers.
Niveles de Organización mental is a compilation of the seminars on developmental psychology given by Dr Thomas in 1993-94, which are not quite complete owing to his death in May 1994. The reader can readily picture Jorge Thomas explaining theory or supervising a case, as the book retains all the freshness of the easy, direct style of a person thoroughly versed in his material, a master whose teaching skills allowed his students to comprehend without difficulty the fundamentals of the development of the mental apparatus—in particular, the origins of mental representation, thought and symbolisation, and the psychopathologies associated with deficiencies in thes