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This book is best conceived of as a handbook to psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Aimed at the non-analyst who is keen to use psychoanalytic understanding and analytic technique where relevant, the members of the author's target audience are no doubt as numerous in Britain today as in the United States, where he works. Laid out in an orderly manner, using numbered sections, the book covers the whole field, as its title suggests. But the section of greatest interest to analytical psychologists is that in which Paolino looks at ‘similarities and differences between psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic therapy’. By focussing on this section, I do not intend to re-open the debate about what constitutes analysis or whether certain types of practice are, or are not, analytical. Rather my aim is to see how Paolino helps in responding to the current situation in which, whether we like it or not, Jungian analysis and psychotherapy are in the mainstream of psychotherapeutic endeavour.
What I mean is this: the Society of Analytical Psychology, for example, has a hundred or so members. Most of these have patients who themselves do some sort of therapeutic work in a variety of settings. Presumably the psychodynamic basis for these people's work will be Jungian and not psychoanalytic, for it is scarcely conceivable that such a divorce between personal therapeutic experience and practice would exist that there would be no such link. So Paolino's discussion, in these days of clinical respectability for Jungians, is pertinent. The book's discussion of the connections between psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy could be translated into Jungian terms. Although this has not yet been done, we are lucky that Paolino has constructed a theoretical schema which could be used within the