I recently finished reading a book (it was for my nonfiction book club – I didn’t choose it) titled Freud and Beyond: A History of Modern Psychoanalytic Thought by Stephen A. Mitchell and Margaret J. Black (Basic Books, 1995). I’m told they are considered leaders in the field. Our book group likes synoptic works that provide broad insight rather than depth or technical expertise, and Freud and Beyond is one such volume. (Another is Daniel Everett’s Language: the Cultural Tool, which does much the same for linguistics as Mitchell and Black do for psychoanalysis, although Everett’s work is arguably more controversial.)