The first section of this book on Freudian developmental psychology is devoted to unifying Freud's writings on the subject and those of later psychoanalytic investigators such as Hartmann, Kris, Loewenstein, Jacobson, Mahler, Spitz, Kernberg, and Kohut-referred to as “giants of theory building.” Thus the Blancks fashion a conceptual base for the technical procedures that are systematically discussed and illustrated in the second section. They view these procedures as constituting a “technique of psychotherapy different in some respects from that of psychoanalysis [p. 7].”

The term psychoanalysis denotes only the classical procedure, which the Blancks forthrightly describe as “a circumscribed form of treatment designed for a particular type of patient and having a clearly defined goal [p. 1].” They do not differentiate psychoanalysis from “modern psychoanalysis”; the term is never mentioned. Nevertheless, their book is about how the classical procedure evolved into modern psychoanalysis—abroad