This book forms part of a series entitled The Psychotherapy Patient. Neither the Editorial Board nor individual contributors to this volume are well known in this country. The only ones I recognised were Laura Perls and Virginia Satir which will convey that psychotherapy is here taken in a broad sense. Unfortunately in many of the essays it is not made clear which theoretical framework the therapist espouses - one is clearly Kohutian, another a Bio-energeticist. My overall impression is that this is something of a hotchpotch of essays randomly collected together.

The theme as explained in the preface is that of selflessness. The assumption is that there is a continuum with altruism at one extreme and lack of self at the other. This