Ernest Wallwork is both a professor of ediics at Syracuse University and a psychoanalyst in Washington, D.C. In his current book, his professional concerns intersect. There are, in fact, many questions that can be raised about the relationship between psychoanalysis and ediics, and Wallwork deals with just a few of these questions. One question that is often posed is this: Is the view of human nature held by Freud and other psychoanalytic theorists incompatible with the view that human beings have genuine