Psychoanalytic wisdom and experience cannot adequately be summarized, and so it is with this gentle yet profound volume. Although Limentani states that years of practice guarantee experience but not wisdom, this collection of his papers makes it clear that he has acquired both. The author for many years has been a member of The Middle Group of the British Psycho-Analytical Society, hence the title of the book. From this position he modestly but firmly presents his synthesis of the classical Freudian and the Kleinian points of view. Free of jargon and metapsychological formulations, its wealth of clinical theory and practical suggestions most