Countertransference in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Children and Adolescents. John Tsiantis, Anne-Marie Sandler, Dimitris Anastaspoulos & Brian Martindale, eds. Madison, CT:  International Universities Press, 1996.

This is a valuable book not only for child and adolescent therapists, but for clinicians interested in countertransference. The papers stem from a congress of The European Federation for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in Public Health Services. The particular merits of the book are the insights into the use of countertransference from clinicians trained and practicing under different circumstances in six countries: England, Greece, France, Germany, Belgium, and Switzerland. Moreover, we are treated to clinical accounts from the Tavistock Clinic and the Anna Freud Centre. Treatment of neurotics, borderlines, and psychotics is explicated as well. While most of the accounts are about outpatient treatment, there is an important chapter on inpatient problems. In addition, we are privy to an excellent exposition of a rare topic—countertransference toward parents. The authors courageously provide rather copious clinical reports of their work as well as their dynamic analyses. The reader has opportunity to appraise the work as well as develop one's own hypotheses about the cases.

The editors have spared us the familiar review of the history of countertransference in each of these articles, but provide one solid chapter about the clinicians who are influencing European thought. American authors are well represented. The individual clinician, though aware of the idea that countertransference promptings can be useful, seems to be