This collection of written pieces plots the work of an NHS psychiatrist, turning the science of psychiatry into human encounters. Jonathan Pedder could recast the ordinary everyday problems of the public service into an elegantly refined discourse on the Shakespeare, interweaving the psychoanalytic unconscious with the aesthetically creative. He had a career teaching and inspiring colleagues and students with psychoanalytic ways of thinking, encouraging and supporting them in the everyday chores, and challenges of contemporary psychiatry.

Psychoanalyst and author Lou Andreas-Salome may seem to be a figure remote from us, one belonging to a pre-1914 Europe, but in many ways, she is our contemporary. She travelled in a highly romantic world as socialite, sociologist, and author. She was part of Georg Simmel's salon, the most exclusive in Berlin, frequented by elusive poet Stefan Georg, dramatist Paul Ernst, social theorist and polymath Max Weber, and Georg Lukacs, among others. Salome's unique contribution to the erotic was that she argued sexual difference ran deeper than economics and equality-the politics of Marx and the...