In just 218 pages of text Fred Pine delivers a tightly organized and integrated review of the evolution of diversity in psychoanalytic technique and follows with elegant examples of how he uses his grounding in current psychoanalytic theories to guide his clinical judgment. This is a book written by an analyst who continues to think and to grow through working with patients, supervising, teaching, and writing. While he offers nothing that is new in this book, his practical, balanced view, free from the constraints of orthodoxy, makes this volume valuable for seasoned analysts as well as for those who are forming their identities as analysts.

In Diversity and Direction in Psychoanalytic Technique, Pine demonstrates his attitude of receptivity and openness to new ideas in psychoanalysis. In the introduction, he states, “[0]verall I see