"Ogden and her consultants place a quote from James Baldwin at the front of the book: 'Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is face." For me, Baldwin saw denial of reality as perhaps the greatest of sins. By focusing on our explicit and implicit theories and states of consciousness, summarized by the phrase Ethnocentric Western approaches to psychotherapy, Ogden forces us to end our denial of what is evident: the inherent bias and limitations of talk therapy, of attachment theory, of trauma theory, of individualism and autonomy, of diagnoses, and more. You may have come to this book solely to see how Sensorimotor Psychotherapy might affect your way of working--which it will-- but you also will find that you have to face up to discord about how you see and know yourself as a therapist and as a person. If you can overcome your denials, avoid a flight into certitude, and begin to make new meaning of yourself in the world, you will change and grow, and become better for grappling with this book. ".