In Unconscious Fantasy in Psychotherapy, Kenneth Levin has written a clear and richly illustrated primer for doing psychoanalytically informed psychotherapy. Although the clarity and consistency both of his idea of pathogenesis and his cases make his model easy to grasp and to teach, however, his facile dismissal or ignoring of other views or complicating data made me distrust it as a full consideration of either pathogenesis or psychotherapy.

He asserts that the first relationship, almost always with the mother, is the basis for expectations throughout life, and its gratifying