In the course of reviewing a great many books on psychoanalysis and psychotherapy for several journals over the years, I have found that very few of these have much that is original to say and an even smaller number add a sufficient impact to influence my actual clinical practice. The book reviewed here is one of those few, and that is the purpose of bringing it to the attention of psychoanalysts and psychotherapists.

I will begin by pointing out the most serious flaw in the book, which is already recognized by the author himself. His clinical material is written in such a way that the most frequent criticism he has received from colleagues “whose comments I solicited while this work was still in manuscript” was “you make it