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I see that my book has preempted a significant chunk of invaluable time belonging to the lives of eight notable analysts and that they have, nevertheless, retained enough good will to offer cogent critiques and commentaries and even say many nice things about the offending object. Whatever doubts one might have about the book, its existence is now justified as the occasion for this collection of important essays by preeminent scholars on some of the most challenging questions in psychoanalysis.
Quarreling and quibbling, I feel like an ungracious recipient of a gift, but it isn't a party and I'm supposed to quarrel and quibble. To compound my embarrassment, space allows me to thank everyone only generally and en masse for their careful study and their many complimentary remarks, to dwell only briefly on the many appreciated confirmations of my views, and to overemphasize areas of disagreement, quite as though I hadn't been treated more gently than I deserve. I hope I will be forgiven for this lopsidedness, especially by authors with whom I mostly agree; I plead the nature of the forum.
(In what follows, I will use the words psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, interchangeably without prejudice to the issues involved in the distinction.)
I am grateful to Hilkert for his trenchent overview of my large and conglomerate book, and I am fascinated by his plan to elaborate and