Dr. Gordon Warme is a medical doctor specializing in psychiatry and psychoanalysis. He taught at the University of Toronto for thirty years and was director of the Psychotherapy Centre at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. Born and educated in Toronto, he trained with Karl Menninger at the Menninger Clinic in the United States and at the Universtat Heidelberg in Germany. Dr. Warme has been the director of many other programs and is a past president of the Canadian Psychoanalysis Society. Dr. Warme has written three other books, Reluctant Treasures, The Psychotherapist, and The Cure of Folly.