What becomes apparent as one makes one's way through this collection of well-written and well-reasoned papers, chapters, and book reviews written or co-written by Arnold Richards is the fact that Richards has a bone to pick with analysts who make a habit of dismissing, to the point of condemning, the work of colleagues whose approach is largely informed by modern conflict theory. What particularly galls Richards is the way in which these critics unkindly, unfairly, and reductionistically misrepresent the work of contemporary Freudians, which they see as singularly mechanistic, drive-oriented, oedipally focused, and conflict-obsessed while touting their own “evolved” approach as being more humanistic, caring, experience-near, and antiauthoritarian. These detractors celebrate their own brand of psychoanalysis as a truly revolutionary, game-changing paradigmatic shift that effectively replaces the old, tired, misguided ways of analysts, hailing from a different era, who were indoctrinated in a style that has now fallen by the wayside; they pray for the day these unenlightened