This excellent book is a paperback reprint of a book originally published in 1990, and does not contain any material that I could find that differs from the original hardcover edition. It consists of a series of essays by psychoanalytic luminaries, all of which are of rather high quality. It will be of special interest to candidates and to psychoanalysts who are starting out their careers, but every analyst will learn something from it.

Rothstein states in his preface that he has 10 patients in psychoanalysis, a report that a group of recent graduates of a psychoanalytic institute meets with “a mixture of awe and incredulity” (p. xi). Rothstein believes that his success in having a full practice of psychoanalytic patients is a function of the fact that “I knew something about how to begin an analysis” (p. xi). Jacobs, in his introduction, makes the important point that