This work keeps the issue of the relationship of psychoanalytic theory to practice, which is often glossed over, at the center of attention. Technique is not simply the application of theory. There is a broad range of psychoanalytic therapies – Kleinian, Bionian, Lacanian, object relational, self psychological – that represent the application of the same psychoanalytic theoretical understanding of the mind. Psychoanalysis as theory and as practice is enhanced by this confrontation. (1213 pgs)