This volume is a collection of Robin Skynner's papers, spanning a period of about 25 years. While quite well known to group and family therapists in this country, his work is little known to psychoanalysts. Neither is it well know to psychoanalytic practitioners of organizational consultation or group relations work whose intellectual and professional heritage derives from the theories of Klein and Bion. However, as a major proponent of S. H. Foulkes's group-analytic approach, Skynner is very well known in England, and among psychodynamically-oriented therapists and other mental health professionals in Europe, who have been considerably