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The prime role of interpretation in psychoanalytic practice has long been recognized, yet relatively little has been written about its theory and technique. In this work, Louis Paul brings together thirteen papers by various authors which appeared between 1934 and 1958 dealing with precisely these aspects of interpretation. In so doing he has performed a service to psychoanalysts, for the cumulative effect of these papers shows a continuity and development of thinking over the twenty-five-year period. As is inevitable in articles written for individual publication, there is some repetition of content. This repetition, however, reveals that in a quarter of a century the problems of interpretation have not been fully clarified.
Included are James Strachey's discussion in 1934 of the nature of the therapeutic action of psychoanalysis; Henry Ezriel's and George Devereux's ideas on experimentation and technique; Rudolph Loewenstein's thoughts on the role of interpretation in the theory and practice of psychoanalysis; Leon Saul's spelling out of technical rules in detail; Thomas French's considerations of many topics including countertransference; Heinrich Racker's writings on counterresistance; and a final paper by the editor summarizing and