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How and when to bring a psychoanalysis to a meaningful, growth-producing close is an issue that has received far too little attention. As psychoanalysis has increasingly focused on therapeutic process rather than metatheory, exploring the neglected process of termination seems crucial. Good Enough Endings, an edited volume by Jill Salberg, attempts to fill this void. Motivated both by her students' reactions to clinical material she presented about a patient who felt “kicked out of therapy,” and by her own less-than-smooth termination process with her analyst, Salberg began studying termination and writing about it herself. Ultimately, she decided to take on the project of creating a book that would describe contemporary Relational perspectives on termination and other endings in psychoanalytic work. The final product includes a wealth of clinical wisdom about this tender and vulnerable period in analysis. I suspect that readers will recognize the dilemmas and challenges that the writers of the various chapters faced as they worked towards ending relationships that were precious both to them and to their patients.