This thoughtful and serious book contains an impressive collection of 15 papers, editors Christine Driver, Stephen Crawford and John Stewart having done an excellent job in bringing these together. The book is arranged in three parts: ‘The Therapeutic Relationship’, ‘The Personal and Interpersonal’ and, finally, ‘The Personal, Social and Cultural’.

The first part, ‘The Therapeutic Relationship’, contains four papers, with an existential theme running throughout, and which, coming myself from an analytic background offered an interesting review of other ways of looking at relating. Unlike the psychoanalytic model in which the analyst holds the power, as with parent and child, the emphasis is on a more equal therapeutic relationship, which might be considered