Both for psychiatric patients and for the psychoanalytic profession, it is very important that psychoanalytic knowledge and clinical experience continue to influence psychiatry and psychotherapy. An important source of such influence can be books that connect observable clinical phenomena with a meaningful synthesis of contemporary psychoanalytic theory and technical knowledge. Such books constitute a bridge between psychoanalysis and general psychiatric and clinical psychological practice, and can thereby positively influence recruitment to psychoanalytic training. Kernberg's and Gabbard's many