Her Hour Come Round at Last

Gillian Preston, nee Coltart, trained as a primary school teacher. She established a branch of the Preschool Play Group Movement in Bournemouth and, in the early 1980s, joined the newly formed Adult Literacy Scheme. She worked for many years as a Welfare Officer for the Donkey Sanctuary, Sidmouth, Devon and is currently involved with local groups of Friends of the Earth and Amnesty International. Peter L. Rudnytsky is Professor of English at the University of Florida, a Visiting Scholar in the Psychoanalytic Studies Program at Emory University, and the editor of 'American Imago'. Honorary Member of the American Psychoanalytic Association and Corresponding Member of the Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles, he is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with a private practice in Gainesville. He received the Gradiva Award in 2003 for 'Reading Psychoanalysis: Freud, Rank, Ferenczi, Groddeck', and in 2004 was the Fulbright/Freud Society Scholar of Psychoanalysis in Vienna.

• Foreword , Introduction , Tributes , Patients , Nina-isms , Ways of knowing , Nina and the parcel , A Buddhist way of seeing , A one-off visit , Supervisees , A whole attitude to life and work , Charisma , Nina Coltart the consultant: hospitality conditional and unconditional , My Nina , An internal supervisor , Baby Peter , Friends , Homage to a valued friend , A recollection of friendship , My pen pal , The silent listener , Nina Coltart: a person of paradox , Cometh the hour , Schoolmates , School friends , That sense of awe , A knock on my door , A very special time , Family , Little Christmas , A chink of craziness , Memories of Neen , Word games , A five-minute introduction , Readers , Bare attention: the love that is enough? , In praise of Nina Coltart , For Nina Coltart: in memoriam, or calling the thing by its name , Uncollected Writings , Travels , The Grand Tour of New England , The Trans-Siberian Railway , A Tuscan holiday , Hotel drama in New York , Essays , Diagnosis and assessment of suitability for psychoanalytic psychotherapy , The assessment of psychological-mindedness in the psychiatric interview , To go or not to go , Psychoanalysis and Buddhism: does the ego exist? , Self-regarding , Ingredient X , Reviews , Reason and Violence , The Technique at Issue: Controversies in Psychoanalysis from Freud and Ferenczi to Michael Balint , Mother, Madonna, Whore: The Idealization and Denigration of Motherhood , Forces of Destiny: Psychoanalysis and Human Idiom , Ignatius of Loyola: The Psychology of a Saint , Body, Blood and Sexuality: A Psychoanalytic Study of St. Francis’s Stigmata and Their Historical Context , The Electrified Tightrope , Cultivating Intuition: An Introduction to Psychotherapy , Some comments on The silent cry , Obituaries , Dr Maurice Friedman , Jafar Kareem , Curriculum Vitae , Nina Elizabeth Cameron Coltart , Afterword

'Nina Coltart was a courageous analyst who insisted on speaking with a voice that was distinctively her own. Her Hour Come Round at Last comprises of several essays not included in her three collections and some previously unpublished writings, along with tributes paid to her by friends, patients, colleagues, and others. Taken together, these pieces manage to convey a sense of who Nina Coltart was in all her full and complex humanity.'- Thomas H. Ogden, MDContents:FOREWORD - Brett KahrINTRODUCTION - Peter L. RudnytskyPART I: TRIBUTES (A) PATIENTSCHAPTER ONE: Nina-isms - Susan BuddCHAPTER TWO: Ways of knowing - Muriel Mitcheson BrownCHAPTER THREE: Nina and the parcel - Alex Douglas-MorrisCHAPTER FOUR: A Buddhist way of seeing - Barbara HopkinsonCHAPTER FIVE: A one-off visit - Kathleen MurphyTRIBUTES (B) SUPERVISEESCHAPTER SIX: A whole attitude to life and work - Michael BrearleyCHAPTER SEVEN: Charisma - Mary TwymanCHAPTER EIGHT: Nina Coltart the consultant: hospitality conditional and unconditional - Pina AntinucciCHAPTER NINE: My Nina - Maggie SchaedelCHAPTER TEN: An "internal supervisor" - Elizabeth Wilde McCormickCHAPTER ELEVEN: Baby Peter - Mary LeattTRIBUTES (C) FRIENDS CHAPTER TWELVE: Homage to a valued friend - A. H. BrafmanCHAPTER THIRTEEN: A recollection of friendship - Nina FarhiCHAPTER FOURTEEN: My pen pal - Gill DaviesCHAPTER FIFTEEN: The silent listener - Mona SereniusCHAPTER SIXTEEN: Nina Coltart: a person of paradox - Stuart A. PizerCHAPTER SEVENTEEN: Cometh the hour - Brendan MacCarthyTRIBUTES (D) SCHOOLMATESCHAPTER EIGHTEEN: School friends - Janet MothersillCHAPTER NINETEEN: That sense of awe - Jane ReidCHAPTER TWENTY: A knock on my door - Antonia GransdenCHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: A very special time - Anne E. KnightTRIBUTES (E) FAMILYCHAPTER TWENTY-TWO: Little Christmas - Mary NottidgeCHAPTER TWENTY-THREE: A chink of craziness - Penelope TwineCHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR: Memories of Neen - Martin PrestonCHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE: Word games - David PrestonCHAPTER TWENTY-SIX: A five-minute introduction - Gillian PrestonTRIBUTES (F) READERSCHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN: Bare attention: the love that is enough? - Gherardo Amadei and Sara BoffitoCHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT: In praise of Nina Coltart - Peter L. RudnytskyCHAPTER TWENTY-NINE: For Nina Coltart: in memoriam, or calling the thing by its name - Anthony MolinoPART II: UNCOLLECTED WRITINGS (A) TRAVELSCHAPTER THIRTY: The Grand Tour of New EnglandCHAPTER THIRTY-ONE: The Trans-Siberian RailwayCHAPTER THIRTY-TWO: A Tuscan holidayCHAPTER THIRTY-THREE: Hotel drama in New YorkUNCOLLECTED WRITINGS (B) ESSAYSCHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR: Diagnosis and assessment of suitability for psychoanalytic psychotherapyCHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE: The assessment of psychological-mindedness in the psychiatric interviewCHAPTER THIRTY-SIX: To go or not to goCHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN: Psychoanalysis and Buddhism: does the ego exist?CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT: Self-regardingCHAPTER THIRTY-NINE: Ingredient X UNCOLLECTED WRITINGS (C) REVIEWSCHAPTER FORTY: Reason and Violence, by R. D. Laing and D. G. Cooper CHAPTER FORTY-ONE: The Technique at Issue: Controversies in Psychoanalysis from Freud and Ferenczi to Michael Balint, by Andre HaynalCHAPTER FORTY-TWO: Mother, Madonna, Whore: The Idealization and Denigration of Motherhood, by Estela V. WelldonCHAPTER FORTY-THREE: Forces of Destiny: Psychoanalysis and Human Idiom, by Christopher BollasCHAPTER FORTY-FOUR: Ignatius of Loyola: The Psychology of a Saint, by W. W. MeissnerCHAPTER FORTY-FIVE: Body, Blood and Sexuality: A Psychoanalytic Study of St. Francis's Stigmata and Their Historical Context, by Nitza YaromCHAPTER FORTY-SIX: The Electrified Tightrope, by Michael Eigen CHAPTER FORTY-SEVEN: Cultivating Intuition: An Introduction to Psychotherapy, by Peter LomasCHAPTER FORTY-EIGHT: Some comments on The Silent Cry, by Mona SereniusUNCOLLECTED WRITINGS (D) OBITUARIESCHAPTER FORTY-NINE: Dr Maurice FriedmanCHAPTER FIFTY: Jafar Kareem UNCOLLECTED WRITINGS (E) CURRICULUM VITAECHAPTER FIFTY-ONE: Nina Elizabeth Cameron ColtartAfterword - Gillian PrestonINDEX