This slim volume comprises edited transcripts of five meetings of the faculty of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute held from July 1989 through 1991. The topics of these meetings were the future of psychoanalysis, reactions to Robert Wallerstein's presentation of the “common ground” of psychoanalysis at the 1989 International Psychoanalytical Association Congress in Rome, alternative theories, psychoanalysis and the psychoses, and supervision. The discussions are not heavily laden with controversy as there is only one meeting in which there are sharply divergent views, the one devoted to psychoanalysis and the psychoses. While there is a great deal of criticism of Wallerstein's belief that a common ground exists between the various schools represented in the International Psychoanalytical Association, the participants in the discussion