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Anders Zachrisson is well known to this journal’s readers. Born 1943 in Sweden, he moved to Norway after his studies in psychology. In Oslo he had his psychoanalytical training, and there he has spent most of his professional life. During a long career within psychoanalysis, Anders Zachrisson has, besides his clinical practice, had many administrative, scientific, and educational positions. His most central scene has naturally been in Norway, where he has been President of the Norwegian Psychoanalytical Society and Associate Professor in clinical psychology. At home in two Scandinavian countries, the Nordic psychoanalytical community has also been a natural surrounding, as shown in Anders Zachrisson’s activity at the Nordic psychoanalytical conferences, but also in his position as the Editor of this journal. Outside Scandinavia, Anders Zachrisson has been active especially in former Eastern Europe, but also in China. In this wider circle, Anders Zachrisson is probably best known for his involvement in educational matters.
Throughout the years, Anders Zachrisson has been an active author. His subjects have reflected the tasks he has had, but also, naturally, his interests. The papers have been published in highly valued journals, including this one. The most important texts have now been collected in book form, titled Psychoanalysis My Way: Complex Oedipus and Other Issues.
As to its contents, the book comprises four sections: Conceptual foundations, Clinical conceptions, Psychoanalytic education, and Psychoanalysis and literature. As to volume, the main section is the clinical one. It has been divided into three parts: Cases, Concepts, and Method. The overall subject structure shows a natural evolvement. First we have discussions about what kind of enterprise psychoanalysis is: where does it stand in the field of science, what is its epistemological foundation, and how do we see some fundamental concepts like external object, normality, and perception? In the clinical