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In the 1920's, Ella Freeman Sharpe, having spent most of her fifty-plus years as a student and teacher of literature, went to Vienna to become a student of psychoanalysis. In 1937 the Hogarth Press published Dream Analysis, a collection of lectures Sharpe gave at the London Institute of Psychoanalysis. In 1950 Hogarth published Collected Papers on Psycho-Analysis. Both volumes have been out of print for some years and it is to Brunner-Mazel's credit that they are being republished at the present time, because their value to present day psychoanalysis is inestimable. The two companion volumes are reprints of the originals, the only addition being a brief introduction to Dream Analysis by M. Masud R. Khan.
This reviewer found both of these books to be an absolute joy to read, filled with clear, concise, direct prose which had the effect of transporting one into the mind, the heart and the office of this extraordinary analyst. Simplicity of writing is matched by the logical clarity of her thoughts on the process of psychoanalysis, the study of that process, and the study of becoming and being a psychoanalyst.