British Psychoanalysis: New Perspectives in the Independent Tradition is perhaps a book that, much like George Makari's Revolution in Mind, seeks to reexamine a period in psychoanalytic history, with the intent to mine new revelations from our shared pasts. Psychoanalyst, editor and author Gregorio Kohon expertly explores the vicissitudes and complexities of the “independent tradition” in British psychoanalysis, along with the stable of preeminent British psychoanalysts, such as Winnicott, Bollas, and Khan, around whom it took shape.

After Kohon's introductory remarks, the reader is thrown into one of the theoretical conflicts that gave rise to the independent tradition, that around the early development of the child. Winnicott, Khan, Bollas and Cohen discuss successes and failures in the child's early environment following the atemporality of the unconscious as a means to guide them. Winnicott's Fear of Breakdown