<P>In <EM>The Biology of Clinical Encounters</EM>, Gedo utilizes recent findings in neuroscience and cognitive psychology to elaborate his conception of psychobiology and to consider its implications in clinical analysis.&nbsp; He pursues this challenging undertaking in several directions.&nbsp; He illuminates the way in which psychobiology enters into his hierarchical model of mental functioning, and goes on to examine three&nbsp;clinical syndromes - phobias, obsessions, and affective disturbances - in which biological considerations are particularly important.&nbsp; Of special note are chapters examining the implications of a biological approach for clinical psychoanalysis.&nbsp; Gedo explores the notion of transference that grows out of attentiveness to psychobiological factors, elaborates the&nbsp;concept of therapeutics that follows from looking beyond mental contents, and discusses the problem of assessing clinical evidence produced by analyses informed by a psychobiological orientation.&nbsp; Drawing on his own analytic work of over three decades, he compares analyses&nbsp;conducted with a psychobiological orientation with the outcome of analyses conducted earlier in his&nbsp;career with a more traditional psychological approach. </P>
<P>A stimulating introduction to the interpenetration of the biological and the psychological in clinical work,&nbsp;<EM>The Biology of Clinical Encounters</EM> is quintessential Gedo: scholarly in conception,&nbsp;elegant in tone, provocative in import, and illuminating, always, of fundamental issues&nbsp;about the status of psychoanalysis as a science of mind. &nbsp; </P>