Autonomous Self

The late John D. Sutherland was editor of the International Psycho-analytic Library, the International Journal of Psycho-Analysis and the British Journal of Medical Psychology. In his capacity as editor, he sheparded twenty-eight books to publication for his colleagues. Dr. Sutherland was a training analyst in the British Psychoanalytic Society and Medical Director of the Tavistock Clinic. For his work as medical director he was awarded the Commander of the British Empire (C.B.E.), an honor given to only two other analysts, John Bowlby and Anna Freud. In addition to the articles collected in this volume, Dr.Sutherland was author of Fairbairn's Journey into the Interior, published in 1989.

Sutherland died in 1991 at the age of 86, and it is an unexpected pleasure to welcome a book of his collected writings and lectures-unexpected because he did so many other things in his life that it was difficult to realise that he had written so much. The book has been beautifully edited by Dr Scharff. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis This is a book to be highly recommended. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association