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Serendipitously, I had just read and enjoyed Robert Gardner's (1989, 1994) previous two books (Self Inquiry and On Trying to Teach) for a study group, and I was about to read Hidden Questions when Psychoanalytic Books asked me to review it. It was an assignment I accepted with pleasure. Gardner helped found the Psychoanalytic Institute of New England (PINE) in Boston, where he practices analysis and is in great demand as a supervisor. The book is a collection of 11 papers, 6 of which had been published previously as journal articles or book chapters. Anyone who has not yet read Gardner is in for a treat. His writing is witty, original, and refreshing. Some readers may be put off by his whimsy, word-play, and irreverence, which would be a pity. I found myself thinking, in fact, that some analysts who might be least likely to read Gardner could most benefit from doing so.
Gardner explains in his preface his reasons for publishing this book: “I hope this collection may prove of interest to a person who likes to trace ways in which a few ideas—especially a few hidden questions—on one occasion or another press for expression, organization, and reorganization in the thinking and writings of a person