In this unique, prize-winning study Danielle Quinodoz unravels the unconscious significance of the feelings of vertigo which arise in situations where there is no immediate physical danger of falling and no organic cause. "Quinodoz has written an impressive tour de force and offered readers an excitingly vertiginous experience." - Andrea Sabbadini, International Journal of Psychoanalysis "This is a rich, stimulating and generous book which will enrich the thought and clinical practice of clinicians from the newly qualified to highly experienced." - Francois Sirois, Canadian Review of Psychoanalysis