ABSTRACT
Bob: Well, we had a vision of this book several years ago. As is usually our way, we didn't sit down and try to write a book. We usually decide on various individual articles that we want to write, with an eye toward later pulling them together into a book. That's what we definitely did with virtually all of the chapters in this book. They were originally written as articles. There are a couple exceptions: part of the introductory chapter and the chapter on perspectival realism. Other than that they were written as individual articles but definitely with an eye toward a larger book. We wrote the individual articles with the guiding idea that I mentioned before about looking to the philosophical foundations of both traditional psychoanalysis and our psychoanalytic perspective and their profound clinical implications. So that's how we went about it. We would take an individual article, which would then become a chapter, and, it may be that all three of us would be interested in that particular topic or two of us or one of us or whatever the case may be, and if more than one of us were interested in that particular topic, then we would divide up that topic between the coauthors, and then we would edit each others' work. All of us would edit what each of us individually would write.
