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The article reviews the book "Resonance and Reciprocity: Selected Papers," by Dennis Brown, edited by Jason Maratos.

The article reviews the book "Encounters With Melanie Klein: Selected Papers of Elizabeth Spillius," by Elizabeth Spillius and edited by Priscilla Roth and Richard Rusbridger.

The article reviews the book "Sabert Basescu: Selected Papers on Human Nature and Psychoanalysis," edited by George Goldstein and Helen Golden.

The article reviews the book "Touch Papers: Dialogues on Touch in the Psychoanalytic Space," edited by Graeme Galton.

Steiner stresses the importance of the therapist understanding the desire for illusion while helping our patients to face the suffering that accompanies disillusion. I was very happy to be given the opportunity to review this latest book by John Steiner, since I have found his previous books and papers very helpful in thinking about work with patients. Steiner is writing from his position as a psychoanalyst but I think these ideas, which are expressed very clearly, have a relevance for anyone working therapeutically in the psychoanalytic tradition. The garden of Eden illusion: John Steiner's theory of illusion, disillusion and irony: Illusion, disillusion, and irony in psychoanalysis, by John Steiner, Abingdon, Routledge, 2020, 167pp., £ (120.00h), £ (29.99p), ISBN: 978036746701. [Extracted from the article]