Melanie Klein Today: Developments in Theory and Practice Volume 1, Mainly Theory edited by Elizabeth Bott Spillius New Library of Psychoanalysis, 7. New York:  Routledge, Chapman & Hall, 1988,  xii + 358 pp., $17.95 paper Melanie Klein Today: Developments in Theory and Practice Volume 2, Mainly Practice edited by Elizabeth Bott Spillius New Library of Psychoanalysis, 8. New York:  Routledge, 1988,  vii + 315 pp., $19.95 paper

The two volumes of Melanie Klein Today are the seventh and eighth in a series published in association with the British Institute of Psycho-Analysis under the general title of The New Library of Psychoanalysis. Under the editorship of David Tucker, The New Library of Psychoanalysis attempts to disseminate more knowledge of psychoanalysis and to provide increasing communication and mutual understanding between psychoanalysts and non-psychoanalysts. Volume 7 of The New Library is Volume 1 of Melanie Klein Today, and it assembles mainly theoretical papers on developments in Kleinian psychoanalytic thought. Volume 8 of The New Library, which is Volume 2 of Melanie Klein Today, is a collection of papers that deal mainly with the technical issues in practice. Although these two volumes are separated by theory and practice, there are both theoretical and technical issues in both volumes; hence, the inclusion of the word “mainly” in the subtitles, Mainly Theory and Mainly Practice. The papers in both volumes represent four decades of developments in theory and practice from the 50s to the 80s. All these excellent papers were previously published in British and international journals and