Arnold Rachman's book is important. It is not only a mighty contribution to the history of psychoanalysis but clarifies Sandor Ferenczi's groundbreaking therapy with Elizabeth Severn while deepening our understanding of the relationship between Ferenczi and Spotnitz.

Rachman immediately helps us emotionally understand the basis of his elegant inquiry by presenting personal anecdotes of his life and professional history. Thus, he demonstrates important aspects of Ferenczi's clinical approach: openness, flexibility, judicious self-disclosure, and humanity. From the standpoint of his training in clinical psychology at the University of Chicago, he announces his respect for Carl Rogers' mantra of empathy, positive regard, and genuine reflection—all of which Rachman finds in Ferenczi and Severn. He supplies vignettes of his being rejected which are reminiscent of Ferenczi's travails. He describes a battle he had with the dean of his psychoanalytic institute who, incidentally, had come into personal and