This author, at 87, is probably best known as the co-editor of The Freud-Klein Controversies 1941-45 (King and Steiner, 1991). A former president of the British Psychoanalytical Society she has contributed to significant developments in psychoanalytic education and organization in Britain and the IPA. In 1992, she was awarded the Sigourney Prize for Outstanding Contributions to Psychoanalysis. King's career as a writer came about following her own reflections on the psychoanalytic psychology of ageing, which is a major theme in this volume. However, for many who have worked with her there has been a striking omission—her contributions to clinical thinking have been hard to obtain in print. The collation