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THE POINTS OF VIEW ADDRESSED by the members of this panel agree that gender is a central issue in the psychoanalytic experience. Most of the traditional psychoanalytic literature does not focus on values concerning gender. This is, I believe, an error of ommission. The result is that biases and prejudices abound. However, the recent body of literature on gender, however, readily admits to clinical and theoretical innovation with an open mind to ever-changing concepts. Kulish (1984), echoing William James, stresses that clinical data shape theory. The principle becomes metaphor, and the edict, hypothesis. The presenters, in accord with the current literature on gender, clarify and explore innovative work.
Psychoanalysts need to have an awareness that allows them to be non-ambivalent about their gender, so states Mann. Male and female analysts differ in their patterns of relatedness and in their