This is a particularly useful compendium both for those who teach and for those who are being taught the principles of psychoanalysis. As the title implies, it is essentially a clinical book. What the authors have set out to do is to reduce the psychoanalytic process to its constitutive elements. And this they have done in the space of 130 pages, an achievement in conciseness—and a welcome one in these days when so many use a hundred words where ten would do. An earlier generation had Fenichel with his sixteen-hundred-odd references as a guide, but Fenichel