‘Psychoanalysis and Beyond’ by Charles Rycroft. London:  Chatto & Windus and Hogarth.

This book is a selection of Dr Rycroft's essays from 1960 until 1984. It is a wide-ranging and enquiring collection and though, inevitably, some important papers are not included—for example, a 1958 paper ‘An Enquiry into the Function of Words in the Psycho-Analytical situation’—it covers much ground in Rycroft's working life as a psychoanalyst and as a man of scholarship. Peter Fuller's comprehensive and informed introduction charts Rycroft's experiences and work both within the British Psycho-Analytical Society and outside of it (he finally allowed his membership of the Society to lapse in ) and explains the uneasy, sometimes unhappy, circumstances which eventually caused this situation. The editor states that the principal aim in this collection has been to draw out the main themes and emphases of Rycroft's thinking, writing and therapeutic practice, so as to introduce “his radical and independent stance” to a wider audience. Fuller describes Rycroft's method of analysis thus: “He sees each individual man and woman as a ‘psycho-biological entity’, rooted in natural history and the product of evolutionary process, yet simultaneously capable of achievements unique in the animal kingdom (e.g. of ethical, cultural, religious and