Veikko T$aUhk$aU has written an immense, wide-ranging book that is the distillation of his life's work. He is one of the fathers of Finnish psychoanalysis, is an Emeritus Professor and Chairman of Psychiatry at the University of Kuopio, Finland, and has written three other books and over 100 articles. He is a very accomplished clinician and author, but not well known to the English speaking psychoanalytic world. He is well known to Robert Wallerstein, who has written a very complimentary foreword, and to Drs. Volkan and Kernberg, whose praise for Mind and Its Treatment appears on the front and rear covers of the book jacket. All agree that this is a remarkable contribution from a gifted clinician and theoretician.

A voice from another part of the world, T$aUhk$aU's ideas have the potential for freshness, outside the polemics of American