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It was most refreshing to read Stuart Pizer's work that uses words to paint pictures rather than to engage in dry, logical inference and deductions. Pizer delivers a train of his associations, arguments, paradoxes, and fascinating facts, and the reader is invited to “play” with the concept of negotiation and Pizer's take on paradox, which has significance for psychoanalytic technique. The book is not just a theory of technique or a clinical case analysis; it is a way of looking at psychoanalysis, a sophisticated interpretation of intersubjective and relational concepts for a radically different conceptualization of the nature of the therapeutic action of psychoanalysis. As the work develops one feels very gently coaxed and negotiated until one's mind has adopted the concepts played out in the text with a minimum of resistance and without feeling seduced, manipulated or in any way deprived of one's own personal negotiating space. Even though I consider this book to be an important work, it should not be taken to mean that I agree with everything written in it. If the goal of a scholarly book is to generate ideas, I can say that in all the years I have reviewed books, I have never made so many notes to myself or had so many new