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Nina Coltart writes about subjects in Slouching Towards Bethlehem… that constantly plague, intellectually stimulate, or delight the serious analytic therapist. She discusses love, spirituality, sin, countertransference, paying attention, choosing suitable patients for analytic treatment, and the ever-curious phenomenon encountered in the “talking cure”: the silent patient. More importantly, she does so with a liveliness, a seemingly effortless ability to communicate complex ideas in simple language, and a profound respect for fellow clinicians and patients. Absent are any litanies of complaints about difficult patients. Also absent is any attempt to define analytic treatment as scientific. Nina Coltart clearly sees the analytic endeavor as a spiritual, intellectual, emotional, philosophical, artistic, and deeply personal event. Evidence for the efficacy of the analytic method, or attempts to standardize what we do or who we do it with, (so often emphasized in the current market place where third-party payers challenge us to justify our existence) are not the concern of Dr. Coltart. She is the product of an era when psychoanalysts quoted poetry with pride, when personal