This book comprises an Introduction followed by 20 papers spanning “44 years of exploring psychoanalysis” (as the sub-title says), and a final chapter called “Afterthoughts”. Each paper is re-introduced, in 1987, by the author, with brief comments on how it came to be written and, in some cases, on why it is included here. Occasionally she appends a letter from someone to whom she sent the article before its initial publication; such letters appear here from Jock Sutherland, Melanie Klein, Marjorie Brierley and Wilfred