Sutherland offers a model of psychoanalytic theory representing a prominent English school of psychoanalysis and then attempts to clarify the relationship between this object relations theory and ego psychology. He feels that some of the apparent differences actually are complementary rather than incompatible. He does believe, however, that the classical conceptual model of psychoanalysis and ego psychology, especially as developed by Rapaport, is not sufficiently flexible and comprehensive to help us understand behavior in terms of here-and-now manifestations and how these are the product of historical layerings. The object relations theory overcomes this defect by sticking closer to clinical