Castelnuovo-Tedesco's stature as a clinician par excellence is exemplified in this volume of his collected papers. In his preface, the author makes it clear that his primary interest is clinical and he remains close to observable behaviour. Clinical theory rather than metapsychology is the substrate for his thinking. This volume of collected papers spanning four decades addresses different audiences at different levels of sophistication and is sometimes of uneven quality. Since the papers have been published as written and not updated, some may appear outmoded although one obtains the sense of the sweep of the author's ideas over the years. The first section on the teaching of psychotherapy to medical