Does psychoanalysis really need saving from Freud? Peter Rudnytsky thinks so. He makes a forceful, if somewhat one-sided, argument for his position in this book. Rudnytsky, a professor of English literature, social worker, and Honorary Member of APsaA, explores the “relational turn” in psychoanalysis, with particular emphasis on the contributions of Winnicott, Ferenczi, Nina Coltart, and Margaret Little. He tends to portray these analysts in heroic terms, part of the team that rescues analysis from Freud. Although he pays lip service to Freud's genius, he spends much more time finding fault with him. Of course, faults are easy enough to find. The recently published letters of Freud and Martha Bernays show how jealous, domineering, almost paranoid, he could be at times (Pigman 2012). Clearly Freud struggled with his own neuroses and narcissistic vulnerabilities, from which his self-analysis did not save him. One might more readily agree with what Rudnytsky has to say were his rhetoric not so overheated: