Book reviews in this article: From Pain to Violence: The Traumatic Roots of Destructiveness by Felicity de Zulueta. Thoughts Without a Thinker: Psychotherapy from a Buddhist Perspective by Mark Epstein. That Why Child.‐ Problems in Psychotherapy and Counselling by Carol Jeffrey. Equal Partners ‐ Good Friends: Empowering Couples through Therapy by Claire Rabin. Research in Psychoanalysis: Process, Development, Outcome edited by Theodore Shapiro and Robert Emde Armfuls of Time: The Psychological Experience of the Child with a Life‐threatening Illness by Barbara M. Sourkes. The Harmony of Illusions: Inventing Post‐Traumatic Stress Disorder by Allan Young. H.J. S. Guntrip: A Psychoanalytical Biography by Jeremy Hazell. The Emotional Needs of Young Children and their Families: Using Psychoanalytic Ideas in the Community edited by Judith Trowell and Marion Bower. Multiple Selves, Multiple Voices: Working with Trauma, Violation and Dissociation by Phil Mollon. Race, Culture and Counselling by Colin Lago in collaboration with Joyce Thompson.