Autenticidad y Reciprocidad: Un Diálogo con Ferenczi (Authenticity and Reciprocity: Dialogues With Ferenczi). By Luis Martín Cabré. Buenos Aires, Argentina;  Ediciones Biebel, 2017,  300 pp.

Authenticity and Reciprocity: Dialogues With Ferenczi is an in-depth discussion by 12 Italian analysts and 1 Spanish analyst of Ferenczi's (1988) Clinical Diary, or as the subtitle of the book indicates, dialogues with his diary. While the book consists of multiple dialogues with the theoretical and clinical material published in the diary, it reads more like a four-way dialogue among the group of authors, Ferenczi, Freud, and, finally, the reader. This clarification is important for at least two reasons: first, as throughout the dialogues, the reader feels fully enmeshed as part of the dialogue, generating a sense of being immersed in the exchange of ideas. Second, it is clear that the authors are not trying to provide an introduction to the diary but rather a dialogue among many of the thinkers involved in this project with Ferenczi's thoughts and subjective processes. What the reader witnesses is the profound impact, through time and space, of Ferenczi's influence on contemporary analysts and analytic thinking. This is what is most notable about Authenticity and Reciprocity, which brings to the forefront Ferenczi as a crucial figure in the history of psychoanalysis.

The book is structured into three main chapters and an appendix (including a very helpful glossary in which the authors describe the way in which Ferenczi and Freud used psychoanalytic concepts in sometimes subtle but different ways). The first chapter includes three subsections beginning with an introduction to the general issues of technique and theory proposed in the diary. The second subsection is an attempt to contextualize and provide greater structure and coherence to a text in

Ferenczi's diary that the authors recognize as “fragmented” (Cabré, p. 39) and ultimately formulate a “methodological defense” (Cabré, p. 35) of the material in the diary. The third subsection creates a connective narrative