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Volume IV of this series maintains the high level of the previous volumes. A wide range of psychoanalytic topics or subjects approached from a psychoanalytic point of view is presented. There is no question that the Forum is an effective means of communicating new ideas, providing immediate, thoughtful and expert response from the discussants and, finally, giving the author an occasion
to reply in a considered, economical fashion. This reviewer's attention was engaged successfully by all of the papers and often even more so by the cogent and illuminating discussions, usually four to five in number, which frequently contain very significant, brief communications in their own right.
There are twelve papers in this volume. Included are: a study on radical and militant youth; an interesting comment on the generation gap, using an attractively developed insight from King Lear; a controversial paper on the significance of mourning to the development of adolescents; an open exchange on the effects of the psychoanalyst's personality on psychoanalytic treatment; a related study on group rivalry between analysts and its influence on candidates in training; a first-rate review of supervision stimulated by a paper describing the use of exchange of tapes between supervisor and supervisee; a very topical paper on multiple pregnancies in multiproblem families; and several more clinically oriented contributions with good theoretical discussions, including the hermaphroditic ideal and singing; congealment and fluidity as patterns of the defective ego; the significance and clinical usefulness of regressed ego states; the role of the mental representation of the genitalia; and theoretical inferences drawn from split-off male and female elements.
Unquestionably the editor and editorial board of the Forum are offering a productive method of communicating current psychoanalytic developments and thinking from a carefully chosen representative group of analysts and scholars.