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I approached this book with excitement, anticipating that its author, a clinician, would be more interested in practical matters and techniques that work than with theoretical issues and publications. Druck is a meticulous writer who has attempted to tease out in detail some of the core issues that face practitioners drowning in the polemical and often mindless arguing of university academics about the pros and cons of the various “schools.” He obviously is treating patients and facing the issues that are raised by the slew of contradictory theorizing in psychoanalytic literature. Unfortunately, his clinical examples do not come alive, since for reasons of confidentiality he has not included his own cases.
The book addresses the practicing psychoanalyst, dynamic psychotherapist, and the theoretician of psychoanalysis. It would not hold much interest for other professionals, whose unfamiliarity with psychoanalytic jargon would limit their comprehension.
The books consists of 10 chapters in four parts: “Four Models and Their Clinical Implications,” “Variations in the Therapist's Stance,” “Critical Inquiry into Kernberg's Technique,” and “Expansion Possibilities Within Classical Technique.” There is a useful, although not comprehensive, reference list and a well-constructed index.