This volume contains papers by sixteen authors, and covers a wide area of theory and clinical practice. The seven sections range from psychoanalytic history through to applications of psychoanalysis. Each paper would stand in its own right as a scientific contribution and as a whole the volume is of a high standard with ideas being developed in parallel in different papers.

In the section on clinical theory Max Forman refers to Kohut's work in describing the new diagnostic entity of “Narcissistic Personality Disorder” and takes up the