Psychoanalysis on the Move: The Work of Joseph Sandler: Peter Fonagy, Arnold M. Cooper and Robert S. Wallerstein. London and New York:  Routledge. 1999. pp.  237.

This book was planned as a celebration of Joseph Sandler's work long before his untimely death in 1999. Fifteen essays written by nineteen distinguished analysts from seven countries constitute a fitting tribute to Sandler's contributions to psychoanalytic theory and practice. Perhaps because it was not originally designed as a memorial, the collection gives little account of Sandler's life or any clear picture of the chronological development of his thought. Instead, the contributors attempt to demonstrate how they have built upon Sandler's theories to forge their own understanding of the human psyche and the psychoanalytic process.

The collection begins with an excellent overview by two of the book's editors, Peter Fonagy and Arnold Cooper. They deftly cover the range and depth of Sandler's thought that has led us toward a psychology of feelings, internal representation and adaptation, closely tied to the behaviors of the analytic couple in the analytic situation (p. 24). They have grouped his ideas under a variety of clinical and theoretical headings, indicating the richness and variety of his psychoanalytic contributions: the representational world, the concept of feeling states, pain and depression, the background of safety, trauma, actualisation and role-responsiveness, projective identification, the three-box model, transference, countertransference and the vicissitudes of guilt, regression, epistemology. Fonagy and Cooper's summary is a testament to Sandler's remarkable intellect and endless curiosity—and to the fact that ‘he never slowed down’. They also artfully weave into their discussion the connection