This issue is a symposium on the relation of analysts to outside groups and laymen, relationships among analysts and their different 'schools', relationships of analysts within one school, and the relationships among analysts, teachers, and candidates. Since justice cannot be done to all of the nineteen papers included in the symposium, the best one can do is to give a glimpse of some of the observations in the hope that the interested reader may refer to the articles more fully.

Leon Grinberg stresses the narcissistic gratifications involved in the analyst's work, the need to maintain or obtain prestige, the looking for a refuge in long working hours, and the masochism involved, as potential sources of conflict within analysts. Angel Garma discusses the fact that the analysis of candidates cannot have the same effect as patient-analysis because of the artifacts: e.g., the analyst participates in the curriculum, the candidate has social and scientific