Arthur Robbins's book is about the supervision of psychoanalytic therapy but it is not a standard text on this subject, systematically addressing technical and theoretical issues in the supervision of psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Rather, it is a rich, highly readable compilation of transcripts of sessions of a particular form of supervision, within a group setting. The book addresses many of the complex issues of transference/countertransference dynamics as these are played (acted) out with group members in the reporting of case material. Indeed, reading these transcripts highlights the obvious skill of Robbins in steering his student-therapists between the Scylla of overly intellectualized didactic instruction and the Charybdis of an overly therapeutic group process and makes this little book a compelling demonstration of an emotionally meaningful teaching technique and a worthwhile addition to the growing literature on the supervisory process.

The problem Robbins addresses—the integration of cognitive and emotional aspects of the learning process in