Oneway of evaluating Peter Carnochan'snew work is to ask the question, What does this book offer that we do not already know about the popular topic of counter-transference? One might argue that given the emergence of inter subjectivity as a major movement in psychoanalysis, many aspects of this topic have been addressed thoroughly. Yet reviewing this book has led me to the conclusion that Carnochan's work is not just another example of what I have referred to else where as a “long demonstration phase,” wherein analysts extol the virtues of counter-transference analysis and not much else (Rosenbloom, 1998). Rather this author, who has extensive training in both psychoanalysis and philosophy, lends a philosophical