Treatment of the Narcissistic Neuroses. By Hyman Spotnitz and Phyllis W. Meadow. New York:  Manhattan Center for Advanced Psychoanalytic Studies, 1976.  256 pp.

Not many scientific enterprises may count themselves so fortunate as psychoanalysis, in having numbered among their creators a person bearing the intellectual stature and imagination of Sigmund Freud, with his extraordinary literary gift and productivity. Accordingly the literature of modern psychoanalysis has been disappointingly sparse, evidently because psychoanalysts who originate and practice procedures that depart from the classical model technique have been slow to publish them.

This book by Hyman Spotnitz and Phyllis Meadow therefore fills a gap, long felt by all who have been interested in understanding more fully the new trends in the theory and technique of modern psychoanalytic treatment. The term, modern psychoanalysis, as used by the authors in this book however, is restricted to the specific set of theories and techniques of treatment developed by Hyman Spotnitz over the past thirty years, and does not refer to modern psychoanalysis in its more generic sense. Nevertheless the book is rich in original practical as well as theoretical formulations about individual and group treatment, dreams and psychodynamics, and is filled with