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As analysts feel less compelled to maintain a mask of objectivity to validate psychoanalysis as scientific, Laurie Raymond and Susan Rosbrow-Reich have in timely fashion gathered interviews with 16 well-known writers and organizational leaders in the field. All the interviewees, almost all training analysts, were in their prime through the era of the 50s and 60s, when the idea of the blank screen most influenced analytic technique, especially in the United
States. At that time such interviews, in which analysts talk freely not only of their ideas but of their personal lives, would have been taboo lest current or prospective analysands by reading them suffer irreparable contamination of their transferences. Indeed, the interviewers, a psychiatrist and a psychologist respectively, both graduates of the Psychoanalytic Institute of New England East, started their interviewing because as candidates they had felt deprived of the chance to get to know training analysts as people. They wondered if these designated leaders were really people they could admire and identify with.
At the time of the interviews, 1988 to 1994 but mostly in 1991, all the interviewees were in their 70s or 80s. Not one was a self psychologist, a Lacanian, or a relational psychoanalyst, although Merton Gill might fit into the last group. Leo Rangell and Jacob Arlow most clearly represented an ego-psychological perspective with less questioning of their own subjective biases. Arthur Valenstein, Leo Stone, and Edward Weinshel viewed themselves as conservative but made more room for the analyst's affective participation and uncertainty. Albert Solnit and Rebecca Solomon talked about the process from a developmental perspective, while James McLaughlin, Robert Gardner, and Gill elaborated more on the interplay of subjectivities. In addition to these 10 Americans, André Green, Joyce McDougall, and Janine Chasseguet-Smirgel from France, Joseph and Anne-Marie Sandler from England, and Clifford Scott from Can