Editors' Introduction

We can think of no more appropriate way to begin our first issue of the new millennium than to offer it as a forum for our candidates, the analysts of the future. We are pleased to present papers drawn from the valuable candidates' seminars at the meetings of the American Psychoanalytic Association. We are grateful to the Chairs, Drs. Maxine Gann and William Glover, for their contribution in gathering these papers and providing the Introduction. The papers themselves are stimulating and thoughtful. They are of a quality which demonstrates that psychoanalysis will be in good hands for the future. In the first section, Drs. Gann and Glover take up the problems of induction into analysis. In the second section Drs. Rosen and Lerman illuminate in their own ways “The Training Neurosis,” a condition which is both widespread and well known, but has never before been so succinctly described. Dr. Deborah Barchat provides a discussion of the group or sibling aspects of this neurosis in her “Class Consciousness in Psychoanalytic Training.” The third section consists of a vivid case study by Jane Currin, M.S.S.W., which candidly illustrates the intense transference-countertransference phenomena in a male-female analytic situation.

The timeliness of this candidate's presentation is well demonstrated by our clinical paper, in which Dr. Shahrzad Siassi further demonstrates that a female analyst's gender poses no obstacle to the development of any variety of male transference, including both erotic and paternal.

Our “Analyst's Notepad” section in this issue offers three very stimulating brief papers on the timely themes of analytic listening (Dr. Rush), displaced countertransferences (Dr. Waugaman), and aging parents (Dr. Adelson).

In our previous issue, Volume 8, Number 4, we published the interesting transcultural paper by Dr. Andrew Smolar entitled “Bridging the Gap: Technical Analysis of a Korean Immigrant.” We are pleased to present in this issue both a commentary on this paper