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Most descriptions of actual psychoanalyses are written—no surprise—by psychoanalysts. A very small number of additional descriptions have been provided by former and often disgruntled (or worse) analysands in the form of memoir. Christine Hill's What Do Patients Want? occupies a different and seemingly unique niche in the analytic literature: it is a highly ambitious research study of multiple former analytic patients speaking about their analyses, a group whose own voices, in the eyes of the author, have not been given sufficient weight or credence in the analytic literature. The author is an Australian Ph.D., clinical psychologist and self-described psychoanalytic psychotherapist, although not an analyst. The book is an outgrowth of a doctoral exploration conducted under the sponsorship of the IPA Research Training Program in the late 1990s, and represents her wish to convert the academic thesis into a more readable form. The research is based on interviews (of unspecified length and frequency in the book) of 18 former analysands who had either completed or otherwise terminated their analyses an average of “3-5” years earlier—enough time, in the author's view, to allow them to speak freely without the immediate and distorting pressure of unresolved transference. Hill wanted to hear what