Throughout the development of psychoanalysis, countertransference has been an ambivalently held theoretical and clinical construct. Though little was written during the first several decades of the psychoanalytic movement, over the past few decades (contemporaneous with the broadening scope of psychoanalysis) there has been increased interest in the clinical and theoretical exploration of countertransference and, with this interest, somewhat more attention in the psychoanalytic literature. If countertransference has received minimal attention in the literature of adult psychoanalysis, it has been all but ignored in the child psychoanalytic literature. To wit, only seven papers with countertransference in the title have been published in The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child since Volume 1 in 1945. This book, Countertransference in Psychotherapy with Children and Adolescents, is a long-overdue attempt to address this conspicuous void.