Dr. Guntrip's book attempts to give a clinical description of people with schizoid problems and from this to derive a theoretical, etiological, therapeutic and philosophical position about emotional problems. His psychoanalytic position derives in part from Melanie Klein, Fairbairn and Winnicott. He is one of the foremost exponents of the so-called “English Object Relations School.” Unfortunately this position is not a very familiar one to the majority of American analysts. To put the core of the difference between the Freudian position and the Object Relations position in the simplest possible form: Freudians focus