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When I was asked by the Chairman of the Program Committee to organize a panel on some important aspects of training, I selected as our topic "Problems of Supervised Analysis." Not only is there very little written about supervision, but while we all recognize its great importance in our training program, we have never exchanged our ideas about it. A great deal of discussion is carried on in every Education Committee and a sharing of experiences is urgently needed. At the meeting of the International Training Committee in 1936, on the occasion of the Four Countries Conference in Budapest, a discussion of this topic took place and we have a report about it in the International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, 1937, by Edward Bibring. Already at that time the question of supervision by the training analyst and the problems of countertransference were raised and constituted the main point of a paper by Vilma Kovacs, published in the International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, 1936. This was further elaborated by Blitzsten and Fleming in their paper on "What is Supervisory Analysis?" which appeared in the Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic. They make a distinction between supervision of the therapy of the patient and reserved the term "control analysis" for this procedure, whereas supervised analysis constantly takes the candidate's countertransference into consideration.
Since several members of our panel expressed interest in the problem of countertransference, we have considered the possibility of making it the topic for our panel. However, the concept is used in such a variety of ways that we could organize a fruitful discussion only if we