<p>&ldquo;Theodore Jacobs broke novel ground in 1991, thinking about analytic engagement in this classic&nbsp;and beloved book that is presented in this new edition, insuring interest for new generations of&nbsp;psychoanalysts. Jacobs&rsquo;s gi was (and is) the transla)on of challenging theory into its subtle depths&nbsp;of clinical application. He integrates ego psychology, self psychology and object relations. Nowadays&nbsp;he belongs in Chodorow&rsquo;s 2004/2019 category of &lsquo;The American Independent Tradition,&rsquo; using&nbsp;an intersubjective ego psychology after Loewald and Erikson that is fresh and contemporary.&nbsp;Masterfully he shows fruitful details of how countertransference actually works verbally and nonverbally,&nbsp;moving along clinical process. Demonstrating how limited was the old view of the analyst&rsquo;s&nbsp;reactive feelings and attitudes as hindrance, Jacobs shows the impact of its use for self-attunement,&nbsp;and ultimately sensitivity to the patient&rsquo;s life and mind. He builds here on his 1986 inventive&nbsp;interactive concept of &rsquo;enactment&rsquo;&mdash; a term nowadays so useful in our thinking about unmentalized&nbsp;traumatic aspects of analytic interaction that we have forgotten how controversial it once would&nbsp;have been. . . . enthusiastically recommended for all who practice and care about psychoanalysis&nbsp;and psychoanalytically-oriented therapies.&rdquo;<br />
&mdash;ROSEMARY H. BALSAM, FRCPsych (Lond), MRCP (Edin),<br />
Author of Women&rsquo;s Bodies in Psychoanalysis .&nbsp;</p>