Psychoanalysis at Universidad Pontificia Comillas in Madrid, president of the Forum Society for Psychoanalysis in Spain, and editor of the web

excellent and fascinating course on psychoanalysis, its history, evolution, and current changes in relation to neuroscientific discoveries. His highly interesting and important integration of psychoanalytic theory with the work of neighboring disciplines offers significant technical and theoretical inno-vations. It includes not only a respectful and creative study of Freud, but also a thoughtful discussion of knowledge acquired by various psychoanalytic schools. Bleichmar goes further, however. He offers his own views about the structure and treatment of depression, anxiety, aggression, masochism, nar-cissism, mourning, and superego pathology and in so doing stresses the importance of interventions directed to the specific unconscious dynamics of each patient. To that end, he crowns this work with a “modular-transfor-mational ” model, a conceptual framework for the study of psychopathology that is rich in implications for both psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psy-chotherapy. Throughout, Bleichmar’s clinical talent is apparent in his vignettes. They guide the reader through the carefully crafted goal of hi