As a reader I am grateful to Thomas Ogden who, in his excellent Foreword to this book, or “Reader's Guide,” emphasizes Grotstein's “ability to convey a sense of unlimited creative potential of the unconscious” and heralds the last chapter as a “tour de force that begins with one of the clearest and most inclusive explications of Bion's work” This conceptualization helped me to persevere through Who Is the Dreamer Who Dreams the Dream, which contains papers that cover the years from 1979 to 1998 One difficulty in reading this book is the repetition in such a collection, along with Grotstein's galloping, whirlwind style—a combination that does