Life, Sex and Death: Selected Writings of William Gillespie
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A distinguished and revered elder of the British Psycho-Analytical Society, Dr William Gillespie is one of the few British psychoanalysts who began training in the Vienna of the early 1930s. Later he became well known in England for his pioneering studies of sexual perversion, and for his views on female sexuality, regression in old people facing death, and on instinct theory.William Gillespie is celebrated not only for his scientific contributions but also for his administrative skill, integrity and tact in managing the International Psycho-Analytical Association and the British Psycho-Analytical Society, where he was trusted and respected by both Melanie Klein and Anna Freud.In a biographical introduction the editor, Dr Michael Sinason, looks back on the productive 90 years of Gillespie's life, writing movingly of his early life in China and Scotland and showing his development as a psychoanalytic thinker, organizer and administrator, husband and father. Dr Charles Socarides, an American psychoanalyst eminent in the field of perversion and its treatment, discusses the innovations introduced by each of the papers in the collection shows how Gillespie's ideas influenced by his own contributions and affected the field as a whole.
Acknowledgements1Biographical introduction32William H. Gillespie's psychoanalysis of sexual perversions: an appreciation and integration353A contribution to the study of fetishism (1940)574Notes on the analysis of sexual perversions (1952)705The general theory of sexual perversion (1956)816The structure and aetiology of sexual perversion (1956)937The psychoanalytic theory of sexual deviation with special reference to fetishism (1964)1018Contribution to symposium on homosexuality (1964)1199Concepts of vaginal orgasm (1969)13010Woman and her discontents: a reassessment of Freud's views on female sexuality (1975)13511Extrasensory elements in dream interpretation (1953)15112Aggression and instinct theory (1971)16213Some regressive phenomena in old age (1963)17014The end of life (1973)180Full chronological list of writings, published and unpublished, by William H. Gillespie193References198Name index204Subject index206
