This is a personal book about what for many present-day analysts is a large and impersonal topic, and yet at the same time one that is unspeakably personal and complex. Although I am three generations removed from any direct impact of the Third Reich, the book was not an easy read for this American and Jewish psychoanalyst who was analyzed and trained in the predominantly conservative mode of the 1970s. Emily Kuriloff, the book's author, has explored and traced Holocaust history and its reverberations for psychoanalysts who trained in Austria and Germany and became leaders and representatives of the field before,