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The best approach to an evaluation of this excellent book is perhaps to ask at the outset for whom it is best suited and what use can be made of its contents. Although in recent decades psychoanalytic training has become more widely available with the establishment of new institutes both within and outside of the medical and analytic orbit, instruction for a large number of practitioners working actively in clinics and in individuals practice must be obtained through private classes and supervision, in-service training seminars, independent reading, and discussions with colleagues. The intent of Paolino's book is to serve as a guide, systematizer, and textbook for such students. The intended reader, then, is the clinically active mental health worker who has already been exposed to the theoretical and technical aspects of psychotherapy.
There are, however, very few concessions made to the presumed naivete of the reader.
This book is not a “how-to” manual; it discusses forthrightly and comprehensively a wide range of issues in psychoanalysis. Within the single subject of the therapeutic alliance, for example, may be subheadings such as: ontogeny of basic trust, object constancy, evocative memory capacity, secondary trust, and narcissistic alliance. Clearly, this is not a book for the neophyte. Since Paolino's basic orientation is unquestionably Freudian, the