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This book provides an extremely straightforward account of the author's experiences in analysis with three different analysts: an unnamed Jungian, Ella Freeman Sharpe, and D. W. Winnicott. The bulk of the book is of course devoted to Dr. Little's analysis with the latter, but the description of the two previous analyses is invaluable to an appreciation of Winnicott's genius.
The account of 2 years of psychotherapy with Dr. X requires only three pages of the book, yet it clearly conveys the tenor of that treatment. Dr. X clearly could not recognize the profound disturbances from which the author suffered. He provided a blandly supportive treatment that skimmed the surface of the tensions that gripped Dr. Little. Nonetheless, his therapeutic exhortations and active interventions (for example, encouraging Dr. Little to train at the Tavistock Clinic) resulted in definite emotional growth. It was he who introduced Dr. Little to Ella Freeman Sharpe.
Miss Sharpe's approach to the analysis was governed by her belief that “psychoanalysis is wholly concerned with infantile sexuality in all its forms, i.e.,