The Book

"This is an important book.  It addresses an area of crucial significance for both psychoanalysis and psychiatry, namely the relationship between the two and what each can learn from the other.  Increasingly, research evidence highlights the extensive nature of this overlap, and texts

such as this, with contributions of exceptional quality, are essential in shedding light on such complex terrain." (Dr Matthew Patrick, Training and Supervising Analyst, BPAS Chief Executive, Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust)

"We are moving into a new epoch in which it is becoming possible to scientifically explore the relationship between subjectivity and objectivity and the reciprocal influences of brain and mind, nature and nurture. For those interested, this book is a 'must read'.

It contains four brilliant essays with commentaries. Britton is at his best in giving a psychoanalytic and historical perspective; Fonagy and Bateman show how far things have progressed in their chapter on modern understandings of the borderline mind and brain. There are then two fascinating chapters on the unconscious in manic-depression and dementia."

(Brian Martindale, Honorary President of the European Federation of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Member of the World Psychiatric Association Education Committee)

Contributors include: Ronald Britton, Peter Fonagy, Anthony Bateman, Robin Anderson, Leon Kleimberg, Roger Kennedy, Trudie Rossouw, Margot Waddell and Sandra Evans

The Speaker

Ronald Doctor, FRCPsych, is Consultant Psychiatrist in Psychotherapy at the West London Mental Health NHS Trust, Chair of the NHS Liaison Committee, British Psychoanalytical Society, Chair of the Association of the Psychoanalytical Psychotherapists in the NHS (APP),

Academic Secretary of the Psychotherapy Faculty, Royal College of Psychiatrists and Hon. Clinical Lecturer, Imperial College London. He has edited two books: Dangerous Patients: A Psychodynamic Approach to Risk Assessment and Management, (2003), and Murder; A Psychotherapeutic Investigation, (2008).