This clear and deeply informative book brings a transcontinental integration to the history and evolution of theories of the self. Beginning in France with Descartes, self-reflecting philosophies spread to other countries and languages, where they differentiated. Socor's book brings them together, compares them, and highlights their commonalities and differences. Seasoned clinicians specializing in any theoretical segment of self-psychology will refer often to this book. Like a genealogy, it locates them in their enormous and lush philosophical family tree. As we mature clinically,