Robert D. Hinshelwood je profesorom psychoanalytických štúdií na Univerzite v Essexe v Anglicku. Napísal množstvo kníh a článkov na tému psychoanalýzy a jej histórie, so zvláštnym záujmom o skupinovú dynamiku.
The author works through the psychoanalytic concepts which bear on what happens in groups. His examples are drawn from many years of experience in therapeutic communities, but are relevant to any sort of group. Author of the Dictionary of Kleinian Thought, Hinshelwood draws on the ideas of Jacques, Bion and Menzies Lyth.
We are rooted in the experience of our feelings. We feel ourselves as persons. Such affects are not communicated but exchanged with others. Affects are crucial to our existence but little understood with myriad theories. This book brings together the confusion of what is known from a wide range of studies and transforms them into a coherent whole.