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In A Clinical Workbook for Psychotherapists, Robert Langs presents a cogent reediting, with no substantive changes, of his three-volume Workbooks for Psychotherapists (Vol. 1 : Understanding Unconscious Communication; Vol. 2: Listening and Formulating; and Vol. 3: Intervening and Validating), published in 1985. I would guess that this newest Workbook was published now so as to complement D. L. Smith's book on the theory of Langs's communicative psychoanalysis. The Smith volume, Hidden Conversations: An Introduction to Communicative Psychoanalysis, is a well-written clone of Langs's body of lectures and writings on this psychotherapeutic method, which is analytic but not in any conventional sense. That is, it does not examine the constituent elements of a psychic whole, nor does it attempt to resolve psychic conflict by analyzing transference and resistance. Both Langs and Smith attempt to reveal the meaning of what the patient says and does in therapy, that is, his or her verbal associations as well as nonverbal communications to a psychotherapist. This meaning is a derivative of what the therapist says and does in treatment. Langs believes that the patient is always reacting to how he or she perceives the therapist's handling of the therapy situation—the therapist's characteristic style of listening, talking, interpreting, and being, and the