This volume pays tribute to the work of Heinz Kohut, bringing together leading contributors to the 1981 Berkeley Self Psychology Conference, shortly before Kohut's death, and the 1982 Atlanta Self Psychology Conference. It is an interesting, highly readable collection. The focus is wide-ranging, and though the authors may have some differences with one another, each attempts to demonstrate what he or she sees as the positive contribution of the self-psychological model. The book is divided into four sections: a prologue, followed by chapters on psychoanalytic theory, clinical practice, and the applied arena outside the clinical domain. I shall summarize some of the salient