"My hope is that this book will help to open up a new readership
for [Charles Rycroft]--not a following, which is the last thing he
would want, but an open-minded readership of people who want
encouragement to go on thinking their own way through the deeply
liberating experience of psychotherapy. There are plenty of people
around who are willing to tell us what psychotherapy is, what
happens or should happen between therapist and patient, what
happens between mothers and babies and so on. There are not so many
who encourage therapists to be in "uncertainties, mysteries,
doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason," in
the words Charles liked to quote from the poet John Keats. This is
the creative position, the one in which it is possible to go on
asking the question "What is psychotherapy?" without necessarily
finding an answer to it." -- From the IntroductionCharles Rycroft's
lucid jargon-free approach to psychoanalysis inspired a whole
generation. Taking inspiration from many fields outside
psychoanalysis, including history, literature, linguistics and
ethology, he established the important link between mental health
and the imagination, creating a broader perspective and encouraging
free thinking. This solitary and creative "rebel" rarely received
the recognition he deserved, but this collection of articles and
papers by people who felt the benefit of his ever-curious,
expanding wealth of knowledge, goes some way to acknowledging the
debt owed to him, and introducing a new generation to this
innovative analyst.Contributors include Margaret Arden, Harold
Bourne, Susan Budd, Vincent Brome, Robin Higgins, Jeremy Holmes,
Edgar Jones, R.D.Laing, John Padel, Jenny Pearson, Paul Roazen,
Anthony Storr, John H.Turner, Maryon Tysoe and Dudley Young.
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