More and more we appreelate the truly intersubjective nature of the exchange between therapist and patient. Close Encounters makes an important contribution to ou expanding understanding of what really happens in psychotherapy. Winer has a uniqu and personal point of view. He calls attention to corners of our experience that we onk narily are all ton ready to leave unexamined. His case illustrations are vivil and read able. He takes up aspects of the polities of the therapeutic relationship, of supervisi and of the mental health community, pointing us toward new and elinieally useful wa of thinking about how an individual functions within a group-even a group of t Winer has a wonderful quirky eandor that puts one in mind of invaluable psychosto lytie provocateurs like Winnicott and Searles."

-Owen Renik, M.D

San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institut

"A wonderful book, elear, independent minded, knowing, and wry. It may be the first extended clinical discussion that takes the interpersonal viewpoint to its logical cod points that the field is so complex as often to be unknowable, that we must study our selves and our situations with at least as much energy and intelligence as we study the patients, that the method is not 'narrative' or 'objective truth, but negotiation and col laboration."

-Leston Havens, M.D.

Harvard Medical School