This small volume is a compendium of points of view on the nature of psychoanalytically based treatment, whether supportive or analytic psychotherapy or psychoanalysis. The source of these sixteen brief but densely packed chapters, each containing the point of view of its author, originated in the workshop series of The American Psychoanalytic Association. Many chapters reflect the current trend of emphasizing relationship, empathy, and development. At times there is the implication that positive transference is good and negative transference (and even interpretation) is traumatic or demeaning—"rubbing salt in the wounds," as one author puts it. This reflects a dichotomy in our field between those who value insight, transference analysis, and interpretation (without denying the importance of the relationship in every treatment) and those who vigorously stress relationship and empathy.