Danger and Defense: The Technique of Close Process Attention, edited by Marion Goldberger,  Jason Aronson, 1996,  386 ps.

Danger and Defense: The Technique of Close Process Attention is a volume of papers, collected by Marion Goldberger, to honor Paul Grey's contribution to analytic theory and technique. Some of the authors are students of the technique of close process attention analysis and their papers clarify this procedure and argue for its benefits in contrast to other modes of analytic intervention. These papers are very much in keeping with the title of the book, and the reader is left with a clear understanding of close process attention analysis: the history and development of its theoretical concepts; the details of its implementation with neurotic, impulsive, and narcissistic patients; the differences between traditional depth analysis and contemporary self psychology; the importance of microanalysis of demonstratable defenses against emerging drive derivatives motivated by the danger of punishment from externalized superego introjects; and the ability of close process attention analysis to minimize suggestion and influence, preserve an interpretative mode of therapeutic action, and foster the development of self-observing capacity.

The papers are, for the most part, informative, descriptive, and remarkably clear