This is a very interesting new book by Barbara Stevens Sullivan, a Jungian analyst in California, linking the work of Jung and Bion. It has already drawn warm praise from Grotstein and Symington, psychoanalysts who are well known for their Bion scholarship and creative clinical thinking. Sullivan is realistic about her aims but unnecessarily modest in her self-presentation, declaring ‘I do not think the book requires two readings: my talent seems to lie in presenting complex ideas in simple language and I am not a genius in any sense at all’ (p. 22.).

She sets out to present the personal view she has of how Jung and Bion might be linked. The integrity with which she presents herself making these linkages comes from her closeness to their application in her clinical work. Although there is now a burgeoning field of clinical and scholarly writing on Bion and Jung, I think her book is likely to send both the experienced clinician and interested student in the mental health field back again to the work of these two great men with renewed appetite. Her