If, before you decide to buy and read a book, you are in the habit of browsing through the introduction (especially one like this that provides a helpful résumé of each chapter), then there is a likelihood that you will give this one a miss. You will find statements like 'Psychoanalysts are, on the whole, blind to their own madness and embrace an elaborate system of theories and technical principles which serve to keep self-awareness at bay. To point out the intellectual and spiritual nakedness of a profession which has always prided itself on its integrity and moral superiority is bound to arouse terror and anguish among its proponents' (p. xi). Also on the same page 'There can be no doubt that communicative psychoanalysis is almost invariably experienced by therapists and analysts as deeply threatening'. He adds 'It seems that Kraus's well-known epigram that psychoanalysis is itself the disease for which it pretends to be the cure is more profoundly true than even its author realized'. These statements are relevant, not merely as an