According to the author, this book was conceived as a sequel to his earlier book.1 While I have not read the earlier one, I would characterize Buirski's new book as an attempt to explicate and illustrate his “intersubjective systems” philosophy and approach to psychoanalytic psychotherapy. The chapters cover the application of intersubjective theory to a wide range of topics (including psychotherapy technique, multicultural treatment, prejudice, trauma, and a reinterpretation of the Wolf Man case); many of them are co-authored by colleagues.

As an analyst interested in learning more about the intersub-jective perspective, I found the book interesting but frustrating. My frustration had to with a tension between the clinical and the theoretical material that runs throughout the book. For the most part, the clinical sections describe solid, if unremarkable, psycho-dynamic psychotherapy (not psychoanalysis). In contrast, the theoretical