This is an enormously ambitious book, essaying to elucidate the nature (called by Friedman, the 'anatomy') of the psychotherapy enterprise, through exploring the meanings and uses of theory in its forever dialectical interplay with the meanings and processes of therapy. By theory he means the theory of psychoanalysis and by therapy he means psychoanalytic therapy, conflating psychoanalysis as therapy with psychoanalytic psychotherapy, with only rarely—mostly in the very final chapter—making a distinction between the two (both psychoanalytically-informed and guided) technically distinct therapeutic