As a candidate in psychoanalytic training, over 25 years ago, I began a course taught by Martin Bergmann. I was surprised to find the class attended by many more than the usual limit of ten, and that the students included members and people unaffiliated with the institute as well as fellow candidates. It was clear even in the first session that Mr. Bergmann's following was well deserved Further along in my training I was privileged to take a regular-sized class and two individual tutorials with him. That he was someone quite special was underscored by his being, at the time, a faculty member of the institute without being a member of the sponsoring psychoanalytic society.

I then became informed that Mr. Bergmann was known primarily as a teacher of private seminars. He was also known as an analyst