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An advantage of books about psychoanalysis written by experienced psychoanalysts like Karen Maroda is that it allows for a detailed presentation of their vision of psychoanalysis that has been evolving over many decades of practice. Publishing a full-length book, such as this one, allows the author far more freedom than publishing a paper in one of the prominent psychoanalytic journals where editors have a controlling input into the content of what gets printed and may actually prevent the publication of ideas and theories that are contrary to the guiding sensibilities of the editors. Hence, traditional journals like the Psychoanalytic Quarterly and the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association have been known to exclude, for many decades, the papers of interpersonal or relational school authors who had to create their own journal, Psychoanalytic Dialogues, in order to see their ideas in published papers. With the changing guard of editors, over time, some of these segregating and excluding practices may have diminished or even disappeared but the practice of reviewing papers for publication and asking the author to make changes in order for the paper to be published definitely continues to dominate the world of referred journals. The situation regarding books is quite different; book publishers are attempting to publish books that not only inform but will attract enough attention to inspire psychoanalytic readers to purchase them because they are strong enough in their opinions and well enough written to attract reviews that will be published and invite readers of the review to purchase the book. As a reviewer of this important, detailed to a granular level, book I hope that I can inspire psychoanalysts to buy it and add it to their canon of books they use to teach candidates about Maroda's view of relational psychoanalysis in theory and practice.
The pathway that many analysts have traveled after being trained in what can loosely be called traditional psyc