<P>Each life story is unique, yet each also entwines with other stories, sharing recurring themes linked to issues of gender, Jewishness, women''s education, politics, and migration.</P><P>The book''s first section discusses relatively known analysts such as Sabina Spielrein, Lou Andreas-Salom¿and Beata Rank, remembered largely as someone''s wife, lover, or muse; and the second part sheds light on women such as Margarethe Hilferding, Tatiana Rosenthal, and Erzs¿t Farkas, who took strong political stances. In the third section, the biographies of lesser-known analysts like Ludwika Karpinska-Woyczynska, Nic Waal, Barbara Low, and Vilma Kov¿ are discussed in the context of their importance for the early Freudian movement; and in the final section, the lives of Eugenia Sokolnicka, Sophie Morgenstern, Alberta Szalita, and Olga Wermer are examined in relation to migration and exile, trauma, loss, and memory. </P><P>With a clear focus upon the continued importance of thes