John Forrester, Thinking in Cases: Thinking in Cases by John Forrester (Cambridge:  Polity Press, 2016;  220 pp)

For John Forrester, the case was a critical tool for thinking about the way that scientific knowledge is validated and justified. Thinking in Cases brings together a number of his most influential articles and lectures into one volume. This unfinished work was thankfully brought to fruition by Lisa Appignanesi, who meticulously crafted together the final chapter based on one of Forrester's last lectures in Berlin. The book expounds his thesis that cases are critical for understanding the history of science, and the way that human sciences have defined individuals. From Sigmund Freud to Albert Einstein, Donald Winnicott to Robert Stoller, Thomas Kuhn to John Forrester himself, this book uses case histories as ways to think through the human sciences and particularly their development over the twentieth century. This detailed analysis is also informed by a wider question that guided much of Forrester's work and which is at the forefront here, namely, is psychoanalysis a science? And if it is a science, what kind of a science is it? For Forrester, who knew much of changing forms of scientific knowledge, the answer was tied up with the way in which cases were used, and functioned, via the psychoanalytic method. Forrester describes his