was a formative figure in American psychiatry in the first half of the twentieth century. A disciple of William Alanson White and Adolf Meyer, and a friend of Smith Ely Jelliffe and A. A. Brill, Sullivan played a major role in the Americanization of psychoanalysis and the evolution of humane psychodynamic treatment of schizophrenic and other severely disturbed patients. To this day, his influence is felt in such institutions as the White Institute in New York and the Washington School of Psychiatry, and in the development of the interpersonal and relational schools of psychoanalysis.

Marco Conci is an Italian psychoanalyst, working primarily in Munich but partly educated in the United States, who can, I think, be fairly described as a Sullivanian zealot. In the past twenty-odd years, he has published or presented (by his own account in his bibliography) twenty-seven books or papers dealing with Sullivan and his work. The present massive volume—published in Italian, German, and English editions—