Main description:

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

Contents:

Foreword by Robert Hinshelwood 1. Introduction by Alberto Stefana and Lee Ann Montanaro 2. The analysis of a poem (1938) 3. The Birth Trauma lecture (1938): Lecture on drawings. Being an extract from a research now in its final stages 4. The Scientific Aspect of Surrealism (1938-39) 5. Primary processes of the infantile mind demonstrated through the analysis of a prose-poem (1941) 6. Deflection of energy as a result of birth trauma and its bearing upon character formation (1941) 7. Lecture on Surrealism (1944) 8. Surrealism and Psychology (1944) 9. Draft summary of Psychorealism: The sluicegate of the emotions (Not dated) Afterword by Desy Safan-Gerard