To produce, whether with conscious intention or not, in accordance with left- and righthand cerebral hemisphere theory, a book, with a short text on the right-hand page (when the book is open) faced by a cartoon on the left-hand page, represents an unusual medium for assessing changing phases in the subjectivity of the young psychotherapist. Beginning with the potential psychotherapist's early impulses to take up the profession, then moving on through his institutional training to, by implication, his first few years of practice, this book is the fruit of the enterprise of two young authors, both described as psychiatrists-in-training and one of them, Dr Singer, according to the publisher's letter, in training as an analyst with the C. G. Jung Institute in San Francisco. The medium of communication apart, what the