TO PARAPHRASE THE OLD FRENCH saying: The more things do not change, the more they do not remain quite the same. It is edifying to read Helene Deutsch's paper modestly withheld from publication for forty-seven years yet so timely and insightful still, together with Roazen's pertinent, perceptive and solicitous introduction. Things, indeed, have not changed much regarding the central importance of supervised analysis—probably a more felicitous term than supervisory one—in the training of psychoanalysts. This is acknowledged by the graduates from such training and those charged with doing it.

The concept of supervision antedates psychoanalytic training