Rosemary Balsam has been one of our most original and prolific writers on the topic of the female body in psychoanalysis. If you are interested in this topic you will surely have read one of Balsam's papers. If not, this review is intended to bring her scholarly knowledge and clinical wisdom to your attention. Filled with arresting clinical theory layered with rich clinical vignettes, it deserves a prominent place on the serious clinician's bookshelf.

The 16 references to her own work, beginning in 1974 with a chapter on the pregnant therapist, reflect her longstanding and abiding interest in the female body. Many of the chapters in this book appeared in somewhat different form as talks or papers. Balsam's project is to restore the biological body—specifically the female body—to our discourse. She reminds us that all humans are born of