In The Encyclopedia of Evolving Techniques in Dynamic Psychotherapy: The Movement to Multiple Models Irving Solomon attempts to draw together the last 20 years of psychoanalytic writings in a technically useful fashion. To encompass and interrelate the theoretical range of those writings, Solomon wholeheartedly adopts Pine's proposal for a multimodel approach to theory and therapy; he calls it “the next psychoanalytic creative wave of the future” (p. xvii). Pine holds that the four main psychoanalytic orientations—classical, ego-psychological, object relational, and self-psychological—correspond to four distinguishable psychic modalities. By broadly granting some validity to all four orientations, Solomon, avoiding the polar difficulties of eclecticism and hermetic theoretical rigidity, positions himself to draw freely from the writings each has varyingly influenced. In the introduction, Solomon raises the expectation that he will organize and reground