Forms of Feeling

First published in 1985. This book is aimed at readers who wish to learn how to engage in psychotherapy: for beginners for experienced practitioners for disciplined research workers as for the author the word 'psychotherapy' has a very broad meaning. The author describes this as an 'autobiography': the development of ideas attitudes and meanings which have arisen and been transformed through joy sorrow chaos and relative tranquillity in a journey of forty years through the world of academic psychiatry of analytical psychotherapy of scientific research and of life in a therapeutic community. To a large extent this book is an expression of individual experience.