Dr. Fred Busch's recent book Creating a Psychoanalytic Mind is a welcome addition to our contemporary view of the analytic encounter and to a theory of technique. According to the author, the purpose of treatment is to arouse curiosity and self-understanding through the development of self-observation. This idea is not particularly new. However, Dr. Busch's single-minded pursuit of that aim and his method are quite instructive. He makes the patient a much more active participant in the analytic encounter. By emphasizing process analysis over interpretation of content he shies away from treating the patient as a largely passive recipient of the analyst's