Dr. Rosenfeld presents cases from many years of experience as an analyst working with deeply disturbed or psychotic patients, and demonstrates how his clinical and theoretical formulations can also be applied to less disturbed patients. Distributed by Brunner/Mazel. Annotation copyright Book News, I

Available for the first time in a single volume, this collection of papers by David Rosenfeld illuminates his thoughts and experiences about his fascinating, complicated and demanding work as a psychoanalyst.

This book is based on various cases whose common factor is how the psychoanalytic setting is created: the internalization and realization inside the patient's mind, along with the feeling of fixed hours and the transferential relation with the psychoanalyst. Referring to the great masters of psychoanalysis, Rosenfeld guides us step-by-step through the mysterious terrain of...

Readers will find a fair amount about the sky, some about philosophy and science, and a few on the always somewhat desperate feelings of being in love. There is of course at least one poem about a cat. Within those which textually have a non-aural component to their form, anyone who claims that poetry is only good when read aloud will be, as usual, confounded. Find then light, gentle pleasures in reading from this little store of treasures.

An initial reading of this collection could suggest that primarily hate motivates these writings. Further thought may generate the question: what is hated? The answer is that the author hates what threatens what he loves. Then it is seen that love is really the underlying motive. Expressing sometimes belligerent tones, these outspoken, mostly rhyming verse-poems may reinforce and gladden some of the personal sentiments of those who value fighting for the West.