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An important and comprehensive introduction to the field of psychoanalysis appears in Ludwig Haesler's (1994) Psychoanalyse. Drawn from lectures at the Friedrich Schiller University at Jena in Thuringia, the author stresses the interpersonal encounter that takes place in the psychoanalytic situation. He summarizes modern research in infant psychiatry (Daniel Stern, Robert Emde) and believes that psychoanalysts working in this field are working on the most useful developmental psychology of the present time. Haesler reflects on what takes place in interpersonal relationships as well as what each individual person does intra-psychically with his/her inner representations. He regards psychoanalysis as a historical