Fritz Morgenthaler, who practices in Zurich, presented the bulk of this book in 1977 to the René Spitz Society in Munich. In the introduction to the book he reproduces criticisms by and discussion with Hans Kilian, who raised two main objections: that Morgenthaler lacks a clear point of view, and that his presentation would be better called theory of psychoanalytic practice rather than theory of technique. This last suggestion is now reflected in the book's title. However, the book reads more like a disjointed collection of talks than a well-organized, logical, and progressive treatise. Not only are there several