In this volume, the treatment of patients suffering from psychosomatic symptoms is discussed by a number of experienced analysts who demonstrate that psychosomatic symptoms can be removed through the interpretation and working through of their unconscious meaning. The book is replete with case vignettes and a few detailed treatment accounts demonstrating the effectiveness of an interpretative approach, not in curing the patient, but in alleviating the somatic symptom or even removing it. The contributors stress that their success is dependent on the previous experience they have gained and on the establishment of a transference relationship with those whom they hope to help. Because of the life-threatening nature of the symptoms, and the impact of this threat on the therapist if the transference has been established, these patients represent a specific challenge to treatment. In addition to those difficulties, there is the problem of families that resist anyone who threatens their pattern of functioning. The authors stress the