In this follow-up to her earlier, The Broad Spectrum Psychotherapist (1996), Wyn Bramley has given us a valuable, instructive volume, but also a disturbingly partisan one. Effectively drawing parallels between supervisory and therapeutic situations, she confidently shepherds neophyte psychotherapists through fundamentals of brief psychodynamic psychotherapy and advocates that they then also soon become, in their own right, supervisors of other novices. Her apprentice model is ambitious, indeed daring, given that the population of trainees in Britain she has for years apparently initiated in these highly complex, often elusive endeavors sound as though they have limited formal training and meager institutional support. They seem not to follow the standard and most respected avenues to clinical training in the United States—becoming psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers—but instead miscellaneous ones. To promote the growth of these therapist/supervisors,