The message by Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor's, a wise Latina who wants to bring to the job her gifts of empathy and life experiences as a woman, is echoed in the message of this book by Sandra Buechler, a wise psychoanalytic psychotherapist in New York City and training and supervising analyst at the William Alanson White Institute—she brings her human experience as woman and mother, as a participant in the human condition, to bear on her work as therapist. It is a splendid book by an experienced clinician and teacher, an eloquent self-portrait of an active and committed therapist, brimming with clinical examples and helpful advice to both beginners and veterans in the field. It is a clarion call for emphasizing the role of emotions in life and in therapy rather than of intellectualized insight