The title of Marie Hoffman's new book, Toward Mutual Recognition, not only captures the essence of her relational approach to treatment, but also serves as the paradigm for her project of renewing psychoanalysis's relationship to the Christian faith. Hoffman's model of mutual recognition is rooted in Jessica Benjamin's and Hegel's theories of intersubjectivity, augmented with Ricoeur's hermeneutical approach. Marie Hoffman is a psychoanalyst, a graduate of the NYU Postdoctoral program in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, and founder and co-director of the Society for Exploration of Psychoanalytic Therapies and Theology. Her book, the latest offering in the Relational Perspectives Book Series, is a scholarly and