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I am one of those obsessive bibliophiles who takes great umbrage at mistakes in the use of names not just because that indicates carelessness but because wrong names give one an entirely different slant on the approach of the authors. Thus on the back fly leaf of this slim volume is a comment on Edelstein's “explication of an unusual type of transference based on Kurt Lewin's notion of the ‘dream screen.’” He is undoubtedly referring to Bert Lewin, and indeed in his chapter that is the reference. Kurt Lewin, incidentally, was much more famous than Bert Lewin in world psychological circles, and one of the issues that rankled Freud was that Kurt Lewin had been chosen for the first chair in medical psychology at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem (and not Freud!).
Let us follow our clue along. Looking up the author index, we find that there are separate listings for B. Lewin and B. D. Lewin. Of course, they are one and the same person. Picky? Maybe, but certainly an element of sloppiness has crept into this book, and this is verified by more than its share of “typos” throughout the volume.
Don't judge a book by its cover—or flyleaf. So let's go into the papers. Though there are four headings under which the papers are grouped, they do not truly characterize the division of the papers. And the papers are almost as separate as would be expected by a journal not an annual.
The papers are also very uneven (separate but unequal). The clinical studies (2nd section) are the most intriguing. The model for the clinical studies is an attractive one. Take a clinical observation and investigate it thoroughly through the literature, one's thinking, and one's patients and illustrate by clinical material and theoretical conclusions. J. G. Maguire takes the phenomenon of psychoanalytic stalemate. He teases out the inability of the analysand to navigate