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The name of Bryce Boyer is well known, both within and outside of psychoanalytic circles. For some years now, he has been an active contributor to the literature on anthropology, psychiatry, and psychoanalysis. Within psychoanalysis, he is most closely associated with his unique approach to the treatment of seriously ill, schizophrenic patients by insisting that the treatment of choice for such patients is classical psychoanalysis in its unadulterated form. This aspect of this work has gained him something of a reputation as a "maverick," a label that he seems to relish and even flaunt. The present volume represents a collection of previously published papers, spanning over twenty years, focused primarily around issues related to the treatment of more primitive or regressed patients. This collection is welcome, insofar as it offers us an opportunity to scan Boyer's contributions and to see them more comprehensively in the context of his long and quite fruitful career.
In addition to their historical interest, these papers also have an immediate contemporary reference. Most of the patients whom Boyer describes and on whose treatment he comments would pass