Newly introduced by series editor Donnel Stern, The Fallacy of Understanding and The Ambiguity of Change are richly deserving of the designation contemporary classics of psychoanalysis. In The Fallacy of Understanding (1972) and The Ambiguity of Change (1983), Edgar Levenson elaborated the many ways in which the psychoanalyst and patient interact - unconsciously, continuously, inevitably. This reconceptualization of the analyst-analysand relationship, and of the manner in which the analytic process unfolded would become foundational to contemporary interpersonal and relational approaches to...