Jeremy Hazell, who had a five-year analysis with Harry Guntrip during the 1960s, has taken a number of sequences of Guntrip's dreams and through an understanding of the meanings of these dreams to the dreamer (arrived at by a detailed rendering of the relationships comprising Guntrip's life), has written a superb biography of Guntrip, “one of the psychoanalytic immortals” (p. 343).

The biography begins with an overview of the subject's preanalytical life and is centered on the two major events that followed the establishment of Guntrip's schizoid illness and accompanying physical (conversion) symptoms, these events—his analyses with Fairbairn and with Winnicott—being most important in Guntrip's maturation.

Hazell has provided the ingredients of analyses conducted from object relations perspectives. Such an analysis can, I propose, be