This book of psychoanalytically oriented essays from Australia and New Zealand takes up themes that have been discussed, dramatized and expanded in fictional narratives over the past few years. It considers the effect of place on the psychological development of the individual. The place can be internal to them, their psychological space carefully investigated by analytic practitioners, or external, where how they came to be where they now find themselves is examined. Some of the chapters consider the immigrant's perspective, their need to mourn their loss of their country of origin, their giving up of their culture or retention of it in their holding on to their ‘identity’, how they become