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Winnicott’s Children: Independent Psychoanalytic Approaches with Children and Adolescents. Edited by Ann Horne and Monica Lanyado

sexual politics and correctness. I have no doubt that Balsam is acutely aware of these pitfalls; nonetheless, it is instructive to see where even the most cogent and careful of thinkers can slide slightly down a slippery slope. In the end, Women’s Bodies in Psychoanalysis is rather reflective, intrinsically, of some of the problems and profundity of psychoanalysis that the book so elegantly and earnestly addresses. Its theoretical points are only as strong as their clinical evidence. Its interest in making sense of the psychology of girls and women continually intersects with that of boys and men, and its redress of unfair unevenness occasionally bends a little too far in its own uneven arc; but complexity notwithstanding, the book is a creative whole. In other words, this is a complex and thought-provoking book! And, like the best of analytic texts, it stands meaningfully as a trove of clinical insight and supervision. Balsam is at heart a clinical teacher, one who asks a lot of herself and of us as we continue to define the female, the female in the male, the male in the female—in other words, our shared human core. BARBARA STIMMEL (NEW YORK)