"In this remarkable work, Dr. Annie Reiner explores a hitherto unthought-of perspective on man's moral endowment, and, in so doing, reclaims its lost innocence and positive value for man.  After reading the work, one realizes that psychoanalysis had to wait for Bion to shed new light on the numinour or transcendent significance of conscience as opposed to superego. One of the rewardrs one acquires when reading this book is receiving a profound and extensive survey of Bion's contributions... Reiner sees both the capacity to think and the capacity for conscience as mental potentials not yet realized, but which may be helped toward a process of becoming through analytic work."
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Dr. James S. Grotstein (Los Angeles)

"This is a remarkable book... Dr. Reiner equates the birth of conscience with the birth of the mind, a courageous stance and one that flies in the face of the ethical relativism that permeates our postmodern culture... The implication is very clear that without consciene there can be no authentic mind. ... This book should give us all a good jolt."
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Dr. Neville Symington (Australia)

"Dr. Reiner has written an outstanding theoretical and clinical discussion of the archaic superego. The work is unusually clear and succinct and I think it will contribute significantly to clinical understanding across theoretical points of view."
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Dr. Michael I. Paul (Los Angeles)

 "[Reiner's] expedition - through territories of literature, philosophy, science, theology and, most significantly, psychoanalysis - reaches its summit with clinical illustrations made vivid through extensive sequences of dream analysis. Reiner's is a unique and poetic voice that both echoes and extends those who ventured ahead of her."
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Dr. Judith L. Mitrani (Los Angeles)

Sigmund Freud
by Annie Reiner
In the Collection of Mel Brooks