Malcolm Pines is a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and group therapist and is based at the Group-Analytic Practice in London. He is past President of the International Association of Group Psychotherapy and former Consultant at the Tavistock Clinic. He is the editor of the International Library of Group Analysis series and author of Circular Reflections: Selected Papers on Group Analysis and Psychoanalysis, published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

This book's modest title fails to convey the uniquely erudite, creative and wide-ranging nature of its contents. In this collection of lectures and essays by Malcolm Pines, a distinguished British psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and group therapist, all mental health professionals will find an amalgam of cogent philosophical, sociological, historical and psychological insights amassed over a period of four decades.

• Author's Acknowledgements. Foreword by Saul Scheidlinger. Introduction by Earl Hopper. Section One: Group Analysis. 1. Reflections of Mirroring. 2. Mirroring and Child Development: Psychodynamic and Psychological Interpretations. 3. Psychic Development and the Group Situation. 4. Group Analysis and Healing. 5. Group Analytic Psychotherapy and the Borderline Patient. Section Two: Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. 6. Dissent in Context: Schisms in the Psychoanalytic Movement. 7. Change and Innovation, Decay and Renewal in Psychotherapy. 8. What Should a Psychotherapist Know? Section Three: Historical. 9. Psychoanalysis and Group Analysis - the Jews and the Germans. 10. On History and Psychoanalysis. 11. A History of Psychodynamic Psychiatry in Britain. Section Four: Other. 12. Coherency and Disruption in the Sense of the Self. Bibliography by Maggie Wood. Edited, with notes on the author, by Meg Sharpe.