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The subtitle of this book: "In Quest of the Self-image of Psychoanalysis" may appear as audacious as the editors' intent, which is to find out what basic principles actually guide psychoanalysts in the exercise of their profession. In using the analyst's profession as the object of their inquiry, while refraining from systematic investigation, they asked eminent psychoanalysts from all over the world and some colleagues in their own country to comment on the psychoanalytic attitude, apparently in response to a series of preformulated questions.
The different definitions and emphases given in the 17 answers published in this volume were interpreted by the editors as indicating certain differences among schools and trends. Some of these articles had already been published elsewhere, others were printed almost simultaneously in English-language reviews.
After some preliminary reflections by Páramo-Ortega and Kutter, the book starts with essays centered on the issue of the fundamental psychoanalytic attitude. Rudolf Ekstein, who sympathetically describes the analyst's capacity to wait as an essential fundamental