She wrote the introduction to the recently published French edition of Jessica’s Benjamin’s Like Subjects, Love Objects (1995) and persuaded the French publisher of Freud (Payot) to publish Benjamin’s book in France. Bonds of Love had already been translated in France without generating significant regard for Benjamin or for the Relational Psychoanalytic School. Indeed the very topic of this essay concerns what Waintrater refers to as misunderstandings and misconceptions about the relational movement in France amongst french psychoanalysts and its subsequent unpopularity there.