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This book by Diana Siskind, an adult analyst and adult and child psychotherapist, brings to the field of psychoanalysis a refreshing, wide-angle lense on the work of child psychotherapy, viewing all at once the dynamic process between supervisor, therapist, and patient. The relationship of supervisor to supervisee (therapist) and therapist to patient is the framework Siskind chooses to demonstrate clinical application of theory. Within this triad, she offers her reader entry into the intimate, therapeutic work of a six-and-a-half- year-old child, Cleo, and her therapist, Linda Small. Siskind's choice to structure the book this way is creative and, yes, ambitious. She succeeds best in sculpting the roundness of the supervisor's role and the patient's evolution, and in underscoring the essential value of child psychotherapy. She discusses the evaluation process and the first session and thoroughly delineates the technical nuances of a first year of therapy.
By contrast, Linda Small is left in somewhat lower relief. There does not seem to be enough space for Small to emerge in the