Theodore J. Jacobs is training and supervising analyst at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute and the New York University Psychoanalytic Institute. He is also clinical professor of psychiatry at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the New York University School of Medicine. Furthermore, Dr Jacobs is on the editorial board of Psychoanalytic Quarterly (Editorial Board and Board of Directors), Psychoanalytic Inquiry, International Journal of Infant, Child andAdolescent Psychotherapy, and Journal of Clinical Psychoanalysis. He has written over 50 papers and book reviews on a variety of psychoanalytic topics, as well as two books: The use of the self: Countertransference and communication in the analytic situation (Madison, CT: International Universities Press, 1991) and On beginning an analysis (co-edited with Arnold Rothstein; Madison, CT: International Universities Press, 1998).