ABSTRACT

This title is a celebration of the life of Nina Coltart, who had a career in medicine and psychoanalysis and was author of bestselling titles in psychotherapy The Baby and the Bathwater and How to Survive as a Psychotherapist. The book contains a large number of contributions by specialists in the field including Michael Brearley, Susan Budd and Anthony Molino. The book offers a long-overdue tribute to Nina Coltart (1927-1997), who was a leading figure in the Independent Group of the British Psychoanalytical Society and, indeed, one of the greatest psychoanalysts of the twentieth century. In addition to providing a comprehensive assessment of Coltart's life and work by patients, supervisees, friends, family members, and readers, the editors have compiled all of her hitherto unpublished or uncollected writings, making this book a capstone of her legacy to psychoanalysis.

part I|194 pages

Tributes

part A|36 pages

Patients

chapter One|7 pages

Nina-isms

chapter Two|16 pages

Ways of knowing

chapter Three|3 pages

Nina and the parcel

chapter Four|3 pages

A Buddhist way of seeing*

chapter Five|2 pages

A one-off visit

part B|38 pages

Supervisees

chapter Seven|1 pages

Charisma*

chapter Nine|8 pages

My Nina

chapter Eleven|4 pages

Baby Peter*

part C|45 pages

Friends

chapter Twelve|6 pages

Homage to a valued friend*

chapter Thirteen|5 pages

A recollection of friendship

chapter Fourteen|5 pages

My pen pal

chapter Fifteen|17 pages

The silent listener

chapter Sixteen|3 pages

Nina Coltart: a person of paradox

chapter Seventeen|3 pages

Cometh the hour*

part D|10 pages

Schoolmates

chapter Eighteen|2 pages

School friends

chapter Nineteen|1 pages

That sense of awe

chapter Twenty|2 pages

A knock on my door

chapter Twenty-One|2 pages

A very special time

part E|17 pages

Family

chapter Twenty-Two|4 pages

Little Christmas

chapter Twenty-Three|1 pages

A chink of craziness

chapter Twenty-Four|4 pages

Memories of Neen

chapter Twenty-Five|2 pages

Word games

chapter Twenty-Six|3 pages

A five-minute introduction*

part F|46 pages

Readers

chapter Twenty-Seven|12 pages

Bare attention: the love that is enough?

chapter Twenty-Eight|24 pages

In praise of Nina Coltart

part II|161 pages

Uncollected Writings

part A|52 pages

Travels

chapter Thirty|25 pages

The Grand Tour of New England

chapter Thirty-One|8 pages

The Trans-Siberian Railway*

chapter Thirty-Two|8 pages

A Tuscan holiday*

chapter Thirty-Three|8 pages

Hotel drama in New York*

part B|50 pages

Essays

chapter Thirty-Six|3 pages

To go or not to go*

chapter Thirty-Eight|4 pages

Self-regarding*

chapter Thirty-Nine|14 pages

Ingredient X*

part C|40 pages

Reviews

chapter Forty|2 pages

Reason and Violence*

chapter Forty-Six|6 pages

The Electrified Tightrope*

chapter Forty-Eight|4 pages

Some comments on "The silent cry"

part D|11 pages

Obituaries

chapter Forty-Nine|3 pages

Dr Maurice Friedman*

chapter Fifty|5 pages

Jafar Kareem*

part E|7 pages

Curriculum Vitae

chapter Fifty-One|5 pages

Nina Elizabeth Cameron Coltart