Ending Therapy is a readable book in which Terry A. Kupers writes about termination from two aspects, clinical and social. Both issues are extremely complex, and the author's efforts to delineate them are not uniformly successful. This is, however, an excellent ancillary book for students and beginning therapists. The tone of the book is that of a teacher giving a series of lectures. While not comprehensive or exhaustive, it does provide an accessible overview of selected principles of psychoanalytic psychotherapy within an historical framework.

Kupers is at his best when he presents his own clinical vignettes to illustrate difficult facets of psychotherapy and termination. By incorporating brief examples as well as three