As analysts have relinquished the ideal of perfect objectivity, the literature has blossomed with increasingly honest accounts not only of what patients say but also of what analysts at the same time think, feel, and imagine. James Barron's timely volume, Self-Analysis, extends the exploration to self-analysis undertaken deliberately or prompted by symptoms or life crises as well as that evoked by work with analysands.

In a thought-provoking foreword, Stephen Mitchell suggests that a shift from a one-person to a two-person perspective, where the analyst is participant as well as observer-interpreter, makes the