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It is not an easy task to write a brief but sufficiently clear critical review of this important contribution by the late David Liberman. This work is the second corrected and enlarged edition of an earlier work written in 1976. The difficulty of this review lies not only in the breadth of the two volumes, but also in the density and complexity of the concepts developed in them.
Liberman was a psychoanalytic author who has devoted more time to the investigation of human communication and the relations