How has a theory of man as a social being to be formulated if we are to
do justice to his individuality, to the subtle ways in which his love
and hate compete within his relations with others and to the anxieties
and resistances he shows when he seeks to change himself? To answer this
question is the task which the author sets himself. After assessing
Freud's basic principles, the author proceeds to make a uniquely
comprehensive review of subsequent theoretical contributions to
psychoanalysis with special emphasis on the work of Fairbairn and
Melanie Klein. From a background of philosophy, theology and social
studies, the author went on to take a personal psychoanalysis and to
become a full time psychotherapist, and it is from this combination of
wide knowledge and intensive work with people beset by conflicts in
their relations with themselves and others that he evolves his views.