This volume is not the first to incorporate The Future of Psychoanalysis into its title, nor will it be the last. (See, for example, an excellent book edited by distinguished German analyst Johannes Cremerius, most of which addresses the declining interest in psychoanalysis.1) There have also been symposia and countless papers with similar titles; one might say that writing about the future of the field has become almost a cottage industry.

The editor of the book under review here, however, Peter Zagermann, limits his exploration of the future of psychoanalysis to the training analyst system. He provides the reader with fourteen contributions that appear here in their original publications, with the exception of a chapter by Robert Michels and Otto Kernberg.2 There is considerable overlap among the contributions since all the authors address the same subject, and many refer to the history of the training analyst system that began at the Berlin Institute following the Eitingon model.