It is extremely gratifying to read a book about couples' therapy by two analysts who remain within the discipline of psychoanalysis. So often the opposite is true. Many analysts who become involved with couples' and family therapy have severed their ties to psychoanalysis and followed or even initiated antianalytic theoretical and therapeutic approaches. The antianalytic approach does not consider insight as curative, denies the importance of the unconscience, defenses, and conflict or arrest in past development. Fortunately, there have been increasing ethical concerns in the literature about these antianalytic approaches, because