For some time we have felt that the criteria used to assess analyzability need to be investigated. We are continually confronted with the importance of this evaluation process in our work at the Amsterdam Psychoanalytic Institute, as well as in our supervisory activities.

In studying the analytic process, the approach envisioned by the researcher often seems to diverge sharply from that of the clinician. At times this divergence widens to what seems like an abyss between two different worlds. On the one hand, the