This is an amazing book that reveals the transformation of psychoanalysis into a non-ideological pluralistic endeavor. There is no “party line” anymore. Clinicians draw aspects from many models into an amalgam of their own that will vary from one analytic couple to another. This second edition of Textbook of Psychoanalysis is dedicated to Dr. Ethel Person and Dr. Arnold Cooper, editors of the first edition, who shaped a vision of what a textbook of psychoanalysis should be. This vision was interdisciplinary and pluralistic. The book is divided into six sections, organized by six different editors of various persuasions, who chose the authors and topics for the papers to be presented in their section. The authors were given full latitude to shape the format of their assigned task. This second edition has made some changes in format. The editors decided to focus on American Psychoanalysis in the second