TEACHING SULLIVAN'S INTERPERSONAL theory of psychiatry over a period exceeding three decades has been a learning experience of major proportions for me. In fact it had a distinctly personal impact on me, not dissimilar to being engaged in rewarding analytic therapy. It also inspired me to become increasingly focussed on clinically workable approaches in the face of basic schisms in

the field and widely divergent theoretical formulations. By keeping my eyes firmly on the therapeutic process, I have gradually adhered to a more pluralistic and multidisciplinary point of view. My stance of collaborative scanning has emancipated me from the primary ro