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Dr. Dorn has made a significant contribution, it seems to me, to the growing literature on the subject of what could be called the professional relations of analysts: to turn the psychoanalytic eye onto the body psychoanalytic, to observe, identify, understand, and hopefully resolve some of its recurrent difficulties by the instrumentality of, of all things, psychoanalysis. Not only is his paper stimulating and thought-provoking in its coaptation of diverse ideas, but he sets about his task beneficently, reflecting credit on his therapeutic attitude and promising the possibility of healing processes being set in motion. Obvious are his curiosity and wish to understand, and his undeniable confidence in the underlying health-tending processes in his subject.
Anyone who himself has reflected on this subject (that is, everyone), or has attempted to study and research more formally what he witnesses, undoubtedly has become rather immediately aware of the passionate feelings aroused and the heavy persistent resistance attached to scrutiny of how analysts behave toward each other. Both the strength of the feelings aroused and of the defenses erected against them testify further to the magnitude of Dr. Dorn's accomplishment, for the territory he—and an understandably few others—trod is truly terra infirma.
For this reason I would discount the potential criticism of incompleteness and lack of systematization: each bit of resistance overcome and acquaintanceship achieved with what lies beyond leads on to the next,
setting in motion processes familiar to every therapist. These selfsame mobilizations of resistive and curative processes can also be observed in a psychoanalytic group or organization which has taken itself as a subject for study. Indeed, this paper may be partially a result of such processes in the author's own professional group, and certainly a cause for more in the continuing development there.
A more serious reservation might be held about the appropriateness