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Psychodynamic Practice 395 Notes on contributor Manuel Batsch wrote his PhD thesis on Freud’s metapsychology. His research is concerned with the connections between the theory and the practice of psy- choanalysis. Manuel Batsch Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex and Camden Psychotherapy Unit [email protected] © 2018, Manuel Batsch https://doi.org/10.1080/14753634.2018.1467275 Art, creativity, and psychoanalysis: Perspectives from analyst-artists, edited by George Hagman, London and New York, Routledge, 2017, 186 pp., £25-86 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-138-85912-8 I am travelling by train from London to Glasgow, trying to focus on writing but the passing landscape has me mesmerised – so much I’d love to photograph. My eye is drawn by momentary glimpses – the question-mark curve of a dark hedge echoed by a stripe of white cow parsley; a rusted hinge on a barn door framed by crumbling yellow brick, the massive silhouette of a concrete power station looming above a stand of trees in fresh new leaf. I know as I write that I cannot conjure in a reader the thrill these images create in me. Each picture vanishes before words can be formulated or a sentence read. I love this state of being where a visual moment grabs my