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Peter Lomas received his M.D. from Manchester University, worked for a time in a neurosurgical unit, and then went into general medical practice for six years. He received his psychoanalytic training at the Institute of Psychoanalysis in London, became a member of the British Psychoanalytic Society, and has since practiced psychotherapy in Cambridge, England. In Cultivating Intuition Lomas comes across as humane, candid, unpretentious, and deeply dedicated to his art.
When I began this book, given my psychoanalytic institute background in Freud's Standard Edition, my first and thereafter frequent reaction was, “With such friends, who needs enemies?” It soon became apparent that Lomas knows and respects Freudian theory and principles of practice but has many reservations about their efficacy or universality. He also quotes extensively from Ferenczi, whom he admires, and cogently from Winnicott, Roy Schafer, and Lacan (see, e.g., p. 106). He seems conversant with ego psychology, self psychology, and existential and interpersonal theory. Where he departs from the usual is in the comfort and clarity with which he views Freud in unequivocal historical