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ED TAUBER BROUGHT THE "TEACHING TRIANGLE" (supervisor, analyst, and patient) to vivid life. Sometimes you emerged from Ed's office not sure which of the three had just been analyzed, but always sure that you had gained a great deal.
Ed had an amazing capacity to shock you into insight by focusing on what's important, often those uncomfortably obvious things you were hiding under esoteric appraisals of yourself or your patient. He was brilliant, but always grounded in the clinically real and an appreciation of each human being as a unique individual. Where many analysts maunder on about a patient's fear of being criticized, Ed would, in a few crisp words, dissect under this to expose the patient's fear of letting someone affirm him. Then he would pounce enthusiastically on the transference-countertransference issues as experienced in action and while you squirmed, you also laughed. His example of openness, enthusiasm and humor fostered your own courage of freedom (as a patient or supervisee) for the task of seeing accurately, exploring, forgiving, and using creatively your own personality, fallible human quirks and all.