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This monograph is written by one of the most serious and dedicated student-scholars of the current generation. It extends an earlier work by Greenberg and Mitchell (1983), but presents a wide-ranging, new synthesis of late twentieth-century psychoanalysis. Mitchell offers a convergence of concepts from interpersonal analysis, object-relation schools, and certain currents of both self psychology and existential analysis. Authors whose works receive considerable attention include Sullivan, Winnicott, Fairbairn, M. Klein, Kohut, and Mahler, but Lewy, Racker, Gill, R. Schafer, and Loewald are also included in discussions of how to integrate the multiple psychoanalytic perspectives of the late twentieth century. Mitchell asserts his synthesis is a new model suitable for analysts of all but the most classical persuasion. This new proposal is variously called the relational model, the relational matrix, and the relational-conflict model. He offers only one caveat for anyone interested in fully accepting these new constructions: renounce any claim or interest in psychoanalytic drive theory. The author believes that psychoanalytic theorizing has heretofore operated within a field defined by many dichotomous concepts, including drive or relational, biological or social, conflict or deficit (p. 41). To Mitchell's reading, these dichotomies, especially those which emphasize drives instead of relational concepts, have diverted two generations of classical analysts from a full appreciation of the “uniquely human phenomenon” of the psychoanalytic situation (p. 82). By extracting the best from the relational theorists, discarding