The right-to-the-point title of Jane Hall's Deepening the Treatment does not begin to tell the reader what clinical riches she has offered up. A more descriptive, if ungainly, title would be: Getting It Together: How One Analyst Integrates the Major Theories of Therapeutic Action into an Approach That Works.

This is a book for beginning psychoanalysts and analytically oriented therapists, but also for experienced analysts. It would be a perfect introduction for patients considering analysis (superseding Karen Horney's 1946) classic, Are You Considering Psychoanalysis? And if any book could enlighten “behavioral managed