T. G. Ashplant, Liverpool John Moores University, UKPeter Burke, University of Cambridge, UKJohn Forrester, University of Cambridge, UKRhodri Hayward, Queen Mary, University of London, UKKatharine Hodgkin, University of East London, UKElizabeth Lunbeck, Vanderbilt University, USALaura Marcus, Oxford University, UKLuisa Passerini, University of Turin, ItalyAdam Phillips, psychoanalyst and writerAlex Potts, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USALyndal Roper, Oxford University, UKMichael Roper, University of Essex, UKMichael S. Roth, Wesleyan University, USAPamela Thurschwell, University of Sussex, UK

'This rich and interesting collection will provide an essential resource for those wanting to explore creative encounters between psychoanalysis and history.' - Radical Philosophy "For a century psychoanalysts have carefully listened to their patient's accounts of their past and together have constructed 'a history.' This volume has brilliantly transformed that past into a rich and moving account of psychoanalytical historiography." - Christopher Bollas, psychoanalyst "The authors of these provocative and wonderfully inviting essays have put psychoanalysis back on the historical agenda: they show the pertinence of psychoanalysis for history writing today and at the same time provide important new historical perspectives on the articulation of psychoanalysis as a method." - Lynn Hunt, Eugen Weber Professor of Modern European History, UCLA, USA

• PART I: FREUD, FREUDIANISM AND HISTORY The Psychoanalytic Corner: Notes on a Conversation with Peter Gay; M.Roth Freud, Fin-de-siècle Politics, and the Making of Psychoanalysis; T.G.Ashplant The Narcissistic Homosexual: Genealogy of a Myth; E.Lunbeck PART II: PSYCHOANALYTIC PASTS The English Freud: W.H.R. Rivers, Psychotherapy, and the Early Twentieth-century Human Sciences; J.Forrester European Witness: Analysands abroad in the 1920s and 1930s; L.Marcus Beyond Containing: the First World War and the Psychoanalytic Theories of Wilfred Bion; M.Roper 'Primary Maternal Pre-occupation': D.W. Winnicott and Social Democracy in Mid-20th Century Britain; S.Alexander Freud's Stepchild: Adolescent Subjectivity and Psychoanalysis; P.Thurschwell PART III: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND HISTORICAL SUBJECTIVITIES Historical Subjectivity; B.Taylor Keeping Our Distance; A.Phillips The Seven-Headed Monster: Luther and Psychology; L.Roper Elizabeth Isham's Everlasting Library: Memory and Self in Early Modern Autobiography; K.Hodgkin Postwar Art and the Psychoanalytic Imaginary; A.Potts The Pursuit of Serenity: Psychological Knowledge and the Making of the British Welfare State; R.Hayward An Eclectic Ego-Histoire; L.Passerini Afterword; P.Burke