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Whilst psychoanalytical psychotherapy is rooted, historically and theoretically in psychoanalysis, it is not the same as psychoanalysis. Psychoanalytical psychotherapy has its own techniques and borrows a great deal of theory from beyond the field of psychoanalysis proper. This volume stands by, and addresses itself to psychoanalytical psychotherapy and takes into account the different tasks expected and the varying settings in which it is applied.
This volume is the tenth issue of this familiar annual, and will be the last issue to be edited and orchestrated by Langs who, as editor-in-chief, has done so much to establish it and its place within the literature of psychoanalytical psychotherapy.
It is eminently appropriate and probably fortuitous that this book is reviewed in this, the first edition of Psychoanalytical Psychotherapy, the journal of the Association for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in the NHS, which is dedicated to the promulgation and development of psychoanalytical psychotherapy and its application to health care problems in the NHS.
The development of this sub-speciality, is helped by the appearance of volumes such as this.
Despite similar origins, the task of applying psychoanalytic knowledge and skill to problems in the NHS, is different from that in the psychoanalytic consulting room, and many of the articles in this volume apply themselves to these problems.
Donald M. Kaplan in 1980, likened volume 7 of this Journal to live jazz” … in which improvisation is an activity of spontaneous ingenuity guided … by certain unmistakable structures and principles no less difficult to assimilate than those of any other kind of music.” He went on to describe the articles in volume 7 as being restatements of ideas already known, but presented as seemingly being worked on further. The reviewer shares this perspective about the present volume and found it interesting and stimulating to read and one got a sense of reading not a polished article for a journal, but mor