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This is an excellent book, in its genre. The genre I refer to is books written by psychoanalysts who, after decades of work, integrate their clinical experience with existing theory. They summarize what they were taught, quote subsequent literature, and put together a revision and consolidation that they have found valuable. The books in this genre cover the gamut of theory and technique as applied to personality change. The best books are helpful to experienced clinicians and, more important, to trainees. This is such a book.
Hooberman reviews the literature central to American ego psychology and extends himself to include object relations, self psychological, and intersubjective works. Striving toward synthesis, he theorizes about how character is modified in the course of therapy-centered relationship experiences, as affected by transference interpretation, countertransference, and the recollection of childhood experiences.
While the author deals with various characterological types, he does not segregate them in specific chapters. Instead, he regards each individual as a unique character, to be discovered only to a degree, and with great difficulty, in the context of psychoanalytic treatment. His