The goal of the editors of this volume of essays is "to discuss the elusive topic of resistance and, further, to offer some techniques for dealing with resistance as it emerges in dynamic psychotherapy" (p. 3). They specifically aim to provide some current approaches to more disturbed and difficult patients, including those with narcissistic, borderline, and psychotic conditions. In order to accomplish this task, they have reprinted five classics together with eleven new chapters—six on "Specific Techniques" and five on "Resistance in Specific Diagnostic Categories." Both editors are professors at Adelphi University's Derner Institute of Advanced