In a postmodern age of theories being elevated to would be meta-psychologies, Dr. Rangell offers us his view of psychoanalysis since 1941, that is, sixty-three years of work, understanding, truth, politics, chance, tragedy, misunderstanding and hope. After a brief look backwards, from the position taken by Otto Fenichel, in the classic Psychoanalytic Theory of the Neurosis, Rangell gently guides us through and weaves the tale of meta-psychology rising, questioned, fighting for survival, falling, failing, resurrected, hiding, and asserting itself.

Of course we all know that Rangell is an “insider,” he has been for many years the fourth and current Honorary President of The International