When the party to launch Internal Objects Revisited was held at the Anna Freud Centre in July 1998, of course no-one realized that within three months Joseph Sandler would be dead and that this book would be the Sandlers’ final collaborative work. It is, however, a fitting final book from Joe, who did so much to advance and integrate psychoanalytic ideas over the last forty years, and one which shows the richness of the Sandlers’ work together. It brings together, expands and consolidates many years of work, much of which, in fact, took place at the Anna Freud Centre, an institution to which both the Sandlers have