Serge Frisch is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. He is chairman of the EFPP and also a founding member of the 'Groupe d'Etude et de Recherche Clinique en Psychanalyse de l'Enfant et de l'Adulte' in Luxembourg and is involved in the training activities of that organization. He is co-editor of 'Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in Institutional Settings', and has published on the relationship between psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, and the social field. Jean-Marie Gauthier is a child psychiatrist and an associate member of the Belgian Psychoanalytic Society, and also a Professor at the University of Liege in Belgium. R.D. Hinshelwood is a member of the British Psychoanalytical Society, and currently holds the post of Professor of Psychoanalysis at the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, and previously was Clinical Director of the Cassel Hospital in Richmond. He is a past Chair of the Association of Therapeutic Communities. Professor Hinshelwood has written extensively on psychoanalysis and founded the 'International Journal of Therapeutic Communities' (now 'Therapeutic Communities') in 1980 and the 'British Journal of Psychotherapy' in 1984.

'...Certainties about the distinct enough compartmentalizations of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapies no longer exist. The borders between them are now blurred, and they shift constantly, depending on one's vantage point and one's theoretical predelictions...This range of uncertainty and contention is clearly illustrated, and very sharply, in the present volume.'- Robert S. Wallerstein, from his Foreword.

• Foreword -- INTRODUCTION A Phoenix rising from the ashes . . . an old controversy revisited -- Psychoanalytic psychotherapy—legitimate or illegitimate offspring of psychoanalysis? -- Psychoanalytic psychotherapy does not exist -- Dialectics of time in psychoanalysis and in psychoanalytic psychotherapy -- Some reflections on once-a-week psychotherapy -- On madness—a psychotherapeutic approach -- What future, what training? (Thoughts on the training of psychotherapists) -- Psychoanalytic psychotherapy and psychoanalysis: a choice in step with the times -- Off the radar screen -- Concluding Reflections