With The Rhetorical Voice of Psychoanalysis, Spence offers his third book-length argument on the problems of clinical theory. In each of these works, he puts psychoanalysis through a gutting criticism and dissection, drawing it to the precipice. Were any potential anti-Freudian to consider but a few of the problems thus targeted, he would waste no time with psychoanalysis, and kick the groaning corpus, whole, over the edge. Spence, however, commits himself each time to rescue and repair.

In Narrative Truth and Historical Truth, decidedly the broadest and most brilliant of the three