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Edna O’Shaughnessy was a Distinguished Fellow and Training and Supervising Analyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society. She came to psychoanalysis from a background of philosophy. Her writing conveys the clarity of her thinking and also the depth of her understanding and ability to think laterally about complex issues including dilemmas for both patient and analyst. The two areas of the defensive organisations of the personality, and the abnormal superego often came to the fore in her work. A selection of her most well-known papers is entitled Inquiries in Psychoanalysis: Collected papers of Edna O’Shaughnessy (The New Library of Psychoanalysis) Ed R. Rusbridger (Routledge 2014).
