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Charles Brenner: PSYCHOANALYTIC TECHNIQUE AND PSYCHIC CONFLICT. New York: International Universities Press, 1976.
Ralph R. Greenson: THE TECHNIQUE AND PRACTICE OF PSYCHOANALYSIS. New York: International Universities Press, 1967.
Karl A. Menninger and Philip S. Holzman: THEORY OF PSYCHOANALYTIC TECHNIQUE. Second Edition. New York: Basic Books, 1973.
Joseph Sandler, Christopher Dare, and Alex Holder; THE PATIENT AND THE ANALYST. New York: International Universities Press. 1973.
PSYCHOANALYTIC TECHNIQUE INVOLVES principles and procedures that constantly require the analyst's review and self-supervision, activities as intermingled with and inherently related to the practice of therapy as is his self-analysis. The first survey of books on technique in this Journal was by Helen Tartakoff (1956), who commented wryly on the use of the term "psychoanalysis" in the titles of these books and reported that only one claimed it justly, the second edition of Edward Glover's The Technique of Psychoanalysis(1955), which brought up to date a classical contribution that had first appeared in 1928.
This later edition contained a questionnaire sent to English analysts in 1938, which, Glover surmised, would have shown little change in 1955. It revealed a great diversity of views and techniques, especially at a time when the teachings of Anna Freud and Melanie Klein were polarizing English analysis. It has often been the case that controversy has engendered new affirmative statements with respect to the