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More than half a century ago, the late Ella Freeman Sharpe, one of the foundational figures of British psychoanalysis, lamented to her analysand Charles Rycroft that British analysts know precious little about their own history. According to Dr Rycroft (personal communication, ), Miss Sharpe regarded a lack of historical knowledge among psychoanalysts as most regrettable.
Fortunately, the interest in the history of the psychoanalytical movement has mushroomed quite considerably in the last two decades, and few people have contributed as extensively to the development of this field as Professor Paul Roazen. Best known for his controversial polemic on Viktor Tausk (Roazen 1969), and for his incomparable study of Sigmund Freud and his inner circle (Roazen 1975), as well as for his comprehensive biography of Helene Deutsch (Roazen 1985), Professor Roazen performed an extremely valuable service to the history of psychoanalysis by having conducted a large series of interviews with the surviving members of Freud's entourage in their remaining months and years of life.