In this lively, unpretentious volume, Harvey R. Greenberg, a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and self-confessed “moviemaniac,” analyzes nearly a hundred films of the past four decades—some exhaustively, others glancingly or as a genre—and the book earns a place on the shelf next to Martha Wolfenstein and Nathan Leites's authoritative Movies: A Psychological Study . Unlike most psychoanalytic film critics, Greenberg has a prodigious knowledge of movies. We learn, for example, that the shower sequence in Psycho has sixty separate camera setups and that John Houston's The Maltese Falcon was the third remake of Hammett's 1929 novel, the previous two film versions having failed. The author states that he finds movie references useful in working with