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DEWALD UNDERTAKES TO DOCUMENT an entire analysis in considerable detail in order to present data for other analysts to study and also to inform the public of the nature of psychoanalytic material (p. 7). The patient he reports on was a 26-year-old woman who suffered from symptoms of anxiety and phobias. The analysis lasted for 347 hours over a two-year period, and as a result of it the patient was relieved of her symptoms. Dewald wrote detailed notes during the patient's sessions, and he bases his report mainly on them. Because they were so voluminous he could not publish them all but limited himself to publishing the detailed notes from 108 hours, choosing the notes of seven complete months taken from the beginning, the middle, and the end of the analysis, and summarizing the rest of the analysis. In addition, at an unspecified time after the analysis had been concluded, Dewald wrote discussions of each of the detailed reports of the 108 hours and a 42-page synthesis at the end. The book includes laudatory statements by Fleming and Anthony and Anthony's report of his interview with the patient three and a half years after the end of the analysis.
As significant and serious an effort as the book is, Dewald has gone even further than his stated goals, and in his 108 discussions and in his synthesis he has written what amounts to an abbreviated textbook of psychoanalytic theory and practice. However, he has been able to do this only by excluding all references to controversial issues, and he conveys thereby the idea that the analysis which he reports is representative. He may be right in this implication, but I