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This book represents a record of the supervision work carried out between Donald Meltzer and a group of psychoanalysts from Barcelona: Rosa Castellá, Lluis Farré and Carlos Tabbia. It was brought together as a tribute to Donald Meltzer and his work and is, quite literally, a publication of the transcripts of the original supervision sessions that were carried out between 1993 and 1998.
Following information about the contributors and the supervision arrangements the book is arranged in date order of supervision sessions. There are 22 supervision sessions overall, 15 of which are presentations of different patients with differing pathologies and the remaining seven are presentations of one patient, Eduardo. Each chapter is a supervision session and is named in relation to the patient and the particular piece of pathology on which the supervision session focuses. At the end of the book there are three different indexes which direct the reader to the central ideas, main subjects, and diagnoses covered by the book. The headings of the chapters and the three indexes help to orientate the reader in relation to the many themes that the book tackles within the framework of the supervision narratives.
The book starts with a chapter on the work of Lluis Farré with a patient called Lucía. This chapter reflects the format of the book in that it is a transcription of the analyst's presentation of the patient material, the session content and Meltzer's comments. As with all the chapters Meltzer's ideas and theories come alive via the presentation, by Lluis Farré, of Lucía. Meltzer elaborates on the patient's material and examines how Lucía exists within the claustrum, a claustrophobic world in which she is trapped in a battle between ‘submission or rebellion’ (p. 9). Meltzer also explores with Lluis Farré the more technical side of the work with this patient and how the language of interpretation does not engage her. Instead Meltzer advocates the language of journalism in which, th