Paula Heimann is well known to us for having, together with Racker, bravely indicated countertransference as the central element, along with transference, in the psychoanalytic adventure, and for having described with precision and conceptual elegance the nature and the dynamics of transference interpretations. The two brief articles, published in 1949 and 1955, dealing with these subjects, while securing her importance in the evolution of psychoanalytic theory and technique, do not do credit to the profoundity of her thinking, nor to the up-to-dateness of her teaching, which in many respects was often ahead of its time. This information gap is now filled by the long-awaited collection of her papers (both published and unpublished) of the years between 1942 and 1980, edited and introduced