Analyst of the Imagination

Charles Rycroft's lucid jargon-free approach to psychoanalysis inspired a whole generation. Taking inspiration from many fields outside psychoanalysis including history literature linguistics and ethology he established the important link between mental health and the imagination creating a broader perspective and encouraging free thinking. This solitary and creative rebel rarely received the recognition he deserved but this collection of articles and papers by people who felt the benefit of his ever-curious expanding wealth of knowledge goes some way to acknowledging the debt owed to him and introducing a new generation to this innovative analyst.