L'Identité Du Psychanalyste. Compte Rendu Du Symposium Tenu À Haslemere (Surrey, Grande-Bretagne) Du 18 Au 23 Février 1976. (The Identity of the Psychoanalyst. Transactions of the Symposium Held at Haslemere, Surrey, Great Britain, February 18-23, 1976.): Edited by Edward D. Joseph and Daniel Widlöcher. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1979. 294 pp.

This French work contains the written presentations and conclusions of the "Haslemere Symposium," which took place in 1976. For this reviewer it would have been easier to read the various articles in their original languages, because the translations into French are more difficult to understand than the original French contributions, an interesting lesson in itself and an indication of how closely language is related to identity. Nevertheless, I feel it will be valuable to offer the following necessarily brief surveys of the papers to convey the gist of the major emphases of the symposium. I will include related observations of my own.

Discussing "the identity of the psychoanalyst," Edward D. Joseph refers to the establishment of a stable self-representation as a result of the separation-individuation phase and to Erikson's concept of a sense of identity at the end of adolescence. He notes that the definition of personal identity includes a sense of continuity in relation to past, present, and future.

The sense of a psychoanalytic identity develops gradually from the identifications with training analyst, supervisors, teachers, and colleagues. New observations and ideas are carefully evaluated, with