Freud's Models of the Mind (An Introduction): Joseph Sandler, Alex Holder, Christopher Dare, and Anna Ursula Dreher, with a Foreword by Robert S. Wallerstein, number 1 in the Monograph Series of the Psychoanalysis Unit of University College, London, and The Anna Freud Centre, London,  International Universities Press, Madison, CT, 1997,  203 pp. $32.50.

The series editors are Joseph Sandler and Peter Fonagy. This is Monograph No. 1. first published in 1997. ISBN 0-8236-2049-2.

This volume contains the seminal papers on Freud's theories by Joseph Sandler, Alex Holder, and Christopher Dare. The essays originated in the early 1970s as a group of lectures by Sandler at the Institute of Psychiatry, University of London (Maudsley Hospital) and were subsequently revised and elaborated into a series of papers by Sandler, Holder, and Dare, published in the British Journal of Medical Psychology between 1970 and 1978. A final, twelfth paper, published by Joseph Sandler and Anna Ursula Dreher in 1982 along with extensive notes and commentary referring to later developments in psychoanalysis, is also included along with material necessary for the completion of the work.

At first I was skeptical, if not cynical, about yet another book that could be compared to the commentaries on the commentaries of the commentaries of the Talmud. However, the more I read, the more I could see that within these pages were illucidations of a basic kind. These clarifications of Freud's models of the mind are Darwinian in scope and detail, revealing how contemporary psychoanalysis evolved from Freud's original writings. In doing so, the authors have rendered to the reader a great service, clarifying Freud's early,