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Roger Willoughby has presented us with a very well-researched work on one of the most intriguing characters in the psychoanalytic world, Masud Khan, a persona closely identified with another acclaimed yet slightly maverick psychoanalyst, Donald Winnicott.
The book runs to 320 pages, covering 18 chapters. An impressive synthesis of material is presented, including the history of prepartitioned India, post-partition life in the Indian subcontinent,2 the history and development of psychoanalysis in India, and the psychoanalytic saga in Britain from the pre-Second-World-War era until the late 1980s, when Khan died of cancer.
It is within these contours that Willoughby situates Khan's life and works. The book appears to be well annotated; Willoughby has included a commendable bibliography of Khan's published and unpublished works (pp. 301-307).
There is an interesting foreword by Pearl King (pp. x-xix), one of Khan's contemporary analysts, who endorses the arguments and merits of Willoughby's thesis on Khan, stressing the need to revisit the enigma surrounding Khan's life. King highlights a comment by Willoughby about his approach in thinking through this book as “one that emphasizes the epistemophillic instinct and an essentialist