Correspondence: Jessica B. Covitz, jcovitz@email.smith.edu

¹is in private practice in Melrose Park, PA and for many years was Director of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapies. His Œdipal Paradigms in Collision, 1997 was nominated for NAAP's Gradiva Book of the Year Award in 1998. He is Visiting Associate Professor of Mathematics at Temple University.

²is a graduate student at Smith College School of Social Work. This is a first in a series of reviews that will attempt to view material from the conjoined perspective of the two reviewers.