The title for these twenty-four selected papers of Leopold Bellak was meant to emphasize that psychoanalysis is not only a theory of psychopathology but also a general psychology. Readers may recollect the 1954 Arden House Conference where Anna Freud and Leo Stone discussed The Widening Scope of Indications for Psychoanalysis. The application of psychoanalytic understanding to the management of schizophrenia and depressions occupies a fair portion of the present volume.

The concept of 'psychoanalysis as a general psychology' has long been in the minds and writings of psychoanalysts. A book bearing that title was published in 1966 as a Festschrift in honor of Heinz Hartmann. The Collected Papers of David Rapaport which appeared early in 1967 also opt for a similar point of view. Rapaport tended to be more psychoanalytically based while Bellak seems more influenced by his medical knowledge (neurology, drugs, etc.). Because of this, the title of the present volume speaks more