This book is edited by Betty Joseph and contains 10 previously published papers and 3 papers that are published first in this volume. The articles span Feldman's work from 1989 to the present. Feldman, whose mentors include Rosenfeld, Segal, and Joseph, became an analyst in London during a time of lively debate and creative thinking. Some essays, like “The Oedipus Complex: Manifestations in the Inner World and the Therapeutic Situation,” first published in 1989, have been widely read. The two papers that give the collections its title, “Filled with Doubt” and “The Problem of Conviction in the Session,” are new.

Several of Feldman's papers deal with clinical phenomena eminently well explained by Kleinian theory, but more importantly, they are amenable to orthodox Kleinian technique—among them, “Manifestations of the Death Instinct in the Consulting Room” and “Envy and the Negative Therapeutic Reaction.” In the former, Feldman rethinks Freud's death