Thoughts on the Processes of Psychoanalytic Writing. Nancy K. Morrison and John R. Evaldson. Pp. 408-419.

"When the idea of writing" interfered with their supervisory sessions, the authors collaborated to examine the process of writing from a variety of vantage points. These included its influences on therapy, supervision, and the analyst. Writing may serve to alleviate the isolation of our work. It may help contain countertransference feelings, as well as being a way of acting out these feelings by distancing therapist from patient. It may also represent a communication with one's own analyst. The collaboration of the authors of this paper began, in part, as countertransference to a difficult patient. The wish to write this paper thus represented the participation of the authors in acting out the repetition compulsion of the patient to precipitate