This volume is a substantial collection bringing together original contributions from 1998 and 1999. It begins with publication of The Annual's first-prize essay, Samuel Abrams's "How Child and Adult Analysis Inform and Misinform One Another". This is followed by a series of papers originally prepared for a symposium honoring John E. Gedo on his 70th birthday. These papers span the clinical topics of obsessiveness (D. A. Freedman), sublimation (J. P. Muller), dreams and self-analysis (M. S. Gunther), and analyzability (A. Wilson), and also delve into applied psychoanalysis and art history, with two studies of Vincent van Gogh (M. R. Gardner, M. M. Gedo) and another of Alberto Giacometti (L. Wilson). These papers not only convey the impressive range of Gedo's own interests, but embody the high scholarly and clinical standards that Gedo has long held, both for himself and for the field in general.