Pailthorpe's important contributions to the development of psychoanalysis are largely overlooked now * Many of her key writings are published here for the first time * Her work ties into the contemporary interest in links between psychoanalysis and creative endeavour

Pailthorpe's important contributions to the development of psychoanalysis are largely overlooked now * Many of her key writings are published here for the first time * Her work ties into the contemporary interest in links between psychoanalysis and creative endeavour