Cecilio Paniagua is a leading figure in contemporary ego psychology. A seasoned analyst with extensive clinical experience and wide-ranging knowledge of psychoanalytic theory, literature, philosophy, and history, he has a remarkable capacity to understand human events from both an individual and a cultural perspective. His Spanish prose is rich, sophisticated, and beautiful, studded with words and phrases borrowed from Christian theology, perhaps guiding us surreptitiously to the sanctuary of ego psychology.

In Psychoanalytic Technique: Contributions of Ego Psychology, a collection of Paniagua's most important articles on psychoanalytic theory