Main description:

The first work to illuminate and develop this scholar's ideas and agendas in the field of psychoanalysis and related areas.
Contributors are well published and hold recognized positions as editors, professors and senior practitioners in their fields.

Contents:

Introduction

Kurt Jacobsen and R.D. Hinshelwood

Part 1 Darwin and Malthus: The Cambridge Years

Roger Smith, "Relations: history of science and the thought of the therapist"

Jim Secord, "Revolutions in the head: Darwin, Malthus and Robert M. Young "

Timothy Sim, "The Reception of R. M. Young's Mind Brain and Adaptation"

Michael Ruse, "The Darwinian Aftermath"

Part 2 History of Science and Technology

Kurt Jacobsen, "Paradigms at Bay: Robert M. Young and the Dialectical Development of Science and Technology Studies"

Maureen McNeil, "Science is Social Relation: Reflections on the Essay and the Intervention"

Les Levidow, "Let's Move on': radical science, critique and Marxism"

Part 3 Psychoanalysis

Barry Richards, "Bob Young and the Free Associations project: A personal recollection"

Ann Scott, "Bob Young at Free Associations Books"

Karl Figlio, "Human nature and money"

Peter Barham, Schizophrenia in history"

R. D. Hinshelwood, "Values: inner and outer"

Paul Hoggett, "Primitive space"

Valerie Sinason, 'Robert M. Young: A farewell"

Conclusion: Bob Young and regenerating his Project

Kurt Jacobsen and R. D. Hinshelwood

Coda: An interview with Bob Young