The title of this slim but concentrated work reflects the essential idea that animates it, the value of the process by which the analyst helps the patient reflect on and come to understand his own mind. Busch raises that process to a significant level and states that the ability to think about one's thoughts, and to come to understand them as subject to unconscious forces, is as important an element in the therapeutic process as what those unconscious forces are about. While this idea of greater attention to the process has found its way into many of our theories, for this author it begins with the analyst paying closer attention to the surface narrative, the way the story is told, the tone, the shifts, the stops and starts, the repetitions, and so on. The surface is readily observable to the patient and becomes a manageable starting point and a stimulus for further interest in his inner life, allowing access to the underlying forces in a more convincing way. Busch argues for