Biological Sciences, University of Essex, Colchester CO4 3SQ, United Kingdom (S.V.-C., T.L.); Laboratory of Plant Physiology and Biophysics (A.H., Y.W., M.R.B.) and Computing Science (S.R.), University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, United Kingdom; Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EA, United Kingdom (H.G); and Physiological Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2...

*Professor of Medicine, T.N. Medical College (Retd.), Hon. Physician, Bhatia Hospital, Mumbai; **Consultant Internal Medicine, Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital, Mumbai O Loewi (1873 1961) studied medicine at the University of Strasbourg and obtained his medical degree in 1896. Thereafter he worked in London under Starling. In 1905, he went to Austria and held professorial positions at the Un...

[Wiherever you go I will go, wherever you lodge I will lodge, your people shall be my people, and your God, my God. Ruth 1:162 [H]uman beings ... look separate because you see them walking about separately. But then, we are so made that we can see only the present moment. If we could see the past, then of course it would look different. For there was a time when every man was part of his mother...

The ideas that are commonly associated with Esther Bick, such as primal skin function, defensive second skin phenomena and adhesive identity, are traditionally seen as affiliated to the larger body of work that constitutes the Kleinian school. I shall argue, however, that Bick's thinking owes a largely communally unrecognised debt to the work of her training analyst, Michael Balint. Beginning w...