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The author of this volume is a well-known psychoanalyst who since coming to this country has been closely associated with the Washington-Baltimore group. She has been greatly influenced by the work and thinking of H. S. Sullivan. Dr. Fromm-Reichmann has produced during the past few years a series of brilliant papers dealing with psychotherapy in general, and with the psychotherapy of schizophrenia in particular. This worker is one of the very few in this field who have had something truly practical and valuable to contribute to the theory as well as practice of psychotherapy. But to this reviewer her writing has even rarer qualities—rare in most present-day psychiatric writing at least—in that she is eminently practical, and her theoretical formulations are clear, succinct and buttressed by sound clinical evidence. Above all, she is a natural-born teacher whose intent and meanings are crystal-clear.
The present volume, which is in essence a summing up and synthesis of her thinking and practice, represents an elaboration on a lecture course presented to the students of the Washington School of Psychiatry, the Washington-Baltimore Psychoanalytic Institute and the W. A. White Institute. It is a systematic description of the principles of intensive psychotherapy