This is undoubtedly one of the most important volumes in the canon of psychoanalytic literature. It is difficult to compare it with anything else because the material is both unique and representative. It is representative in the sense that the vital discussions held in the British Psycho-Analytical Society between 1941 and 1945 contain the essence of what its practitioners consider psychoanalysis to be, and it is unique in that no other volume contains, in such detail, the major interpretations of the central Freudian theory. Fortunately, too, it has been edited by two major scholars in the field — Pearl King, a former President of the British Psycho-Analytical Society