Charles Rycroft was born in 1914 and was educated at Wellington College and Trinity College, Cambridge. He went into private practice as a psychoanalyst in 1947 and from 1956 to 1968 was a part-time Consultant in Psychotherapy at the Tavistock Clinic. He wrote many key books on psychoanalysis including 'Anxiety and Neurosis' (1968) and 'Psychoanalysis and Beyond' (1985). He died in 1998.
A new, second edition of this useful and entertaining reference. The author is highly respected as both psychoanalyst and writer, achieves both clarity of definition and a bracing scepticism of style, with a tongue-in-cheek simplicity which is at times very funny. He manages to explain the often tortuous concepts of psychoanalysis (Freudian and other schools) without the jargonizing pomposity so common in analytic definitions - he admits to suffering from 'the not uncommon constitutional defect of being incapable of understanding Jung's writings'. Deserves a place on the shelf of anyone with an interest in psychoanalysis. (Kirkus UK)