For those of us who are familiar with the psychoanalytic and psychotherapeutic literature, it is a rare experience to come across a book which concomitantly delights us, informs us, and paves the way to enable us to be more sensitive, empathetic and skilled clinicians. Dr. Stanley Teitelbaum has provided mental health professionals with such a book. Once you pick it up, it is very difficult to put down; like a sumptuous meal, you don't want to stop in the middle. Written in jargon-free language, this is the kind of book that