This collection of papers, primarily from a Kleinian viewpoint, is uneven. The contributions of Hanna Segal, Thomas Ogden, Joyce McDougall and Vamik Volkan are each first rate. Many of the other papers are interesting; a few are best forgotten. As a whole, the book's clinical focus on difficult, regressed patients offers an enriching perspective for the Jungian reader.

Jung's vision of the psyche is an object-relations one: he posited an inner universe, populated by an enduring cast of characters, characters who appear in many disguises. The Kleinian view can be seen as the shadow of ours. If Jung spiritualized the