In Hope and Mortality, Mark Blechner has provided an in-depth view of the heights of courage and the depths of despair experienced by therapists who treat patients facing imminent death. The cause of death is AIDS, and the book accomplishes its mission, that is, to show that a psychoanalytic-psychodynamic perspective can be adapted and used to treat HIV/AIDS patients, so that their psychological suffering and pain are minimized. In the process, we learn of the profound impact that impending mortality has on the professional and personal lives of therapists working closely with AIDS patients.