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This book is part of the series Critical Issues in Psychiatry by Plenum Press and was edited by members of the William Alanson White Society in New York City.
Reading the 15 articles presented in this volume, this reviewer was filled with a sense of excitement and adventure, agreement and differing, soul-searching, challenging, comparing, and learning. In addition to reflecting on the facts, thoughts, opinions, and experiences of the authors, the reader has the bonus of having available extensive bibliographies for further reference. Thus, reading this book can be a worthwhile experience for all practitioners of psychoanalysis, regardless of their theoretical persuasions. Throughout the book there is a minimum of dogmatism, but rather, many observations couched in words such as, “suggestive of,” “tends to confirm,” “possible meaning.”
After reading the book and putting it aside to allow myself time to digest the material, I found, that, when I started to “re-view” it, I got caught up in the various thought-provoking concepts and approaches all over again, and with the same excitement.
Many of the authors share with the reader thoughts, feelings, understandings, dreams, and experiences of their own, their patients, their supervisees, and their colleagues, the analysts who are working with the supervisees. Transference and counter-transference issues are explored; ways of dealing with various phenomena are dealt with. The frankness of the participants is most refreshing and instructive. No one in the field can possibly read these articles without learning more about the psychoanalytic experience and the supervisory experience from many levels and approaches.
Some of the intriguing titles of papers are “The Third Ear,” “Can Psychoanalysis be Taught?,” “Stimulation of Curiosity in the Supervisory Process,” “Countertransference in Supervision: Therapeutic Consequences for the Supervisee,” “Supervision: Illusions, Anxieties, and Questions,” “Follow the Fox,” and “In Pursuit o