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This excellent book is highly original, clarifying, and instructive. Jacobs persuasively documents the end of the era in which the analyst can consider his or her emotional involvement with the patient as an intermittent but unavoidable lapse. With a wealth of mordant and detailed clinical illustrations he demonstrates the universal and ubiquitous interaction of the subjectivity of the analyst and the transference expectations of the patient.
Eight of the ten chapters have been published elsewhere. Of these, several have been revised to varying extents. Chapters two, eight, and eleven appear here for the first time. The reviewer brings this forward to encourage the sceptical reader that this is not another in the series of collected papers volumes that are produced to honour the author or spare the reader dipping into numerous separate journals. There is a logical justification for this book because of the organic continuity of the separate chapters.
The first section of the book contains the opening chapter: 'Communication and technique in the opening phase'. Section two contains three chapters: 'The interplay of enactments: their role in the analytic process'; 'Notes on the unknowable: analytic secrets and the transference neurosis'; 'Transference relationships, the relationships between transferences, and reconstruction'. Section three has two chapters: 'Posture, gesture, and movement in the analyst: cues to interpretation and countertransference'; 'The use of the self: the analyst and the analytic instrument in