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Shorter Communications-Book Reviews, Bulletin of the International Association.
Sharpe, E. F. Technique of Psychoanalysis. -In this extremely valuable contribution the writer begins a discussion of the subject of analytic technique which, with Glover's equally valuable contribution, affords guides of great value to the practising analyst. The present series consists of lectures to training analysts at the British Psychoanalytic Institute in London. The first requisite spoken of is the personal analysis.
Through such a procedure, if at all successful, the analysand will recognize the chief features in the technique through personal experience. No analysis is flawless and every trained analyst realizes that they are still students of the unconscious. A second source of knowledge is through the literature. This should always be left to a time after one's personal analysis and preparatory to analyzing others. Every individual analysis is but a fragment. Hence the value of the reading after the nature of unconscious resistance is fully grasped. Specifically one who would analyze must also have certain qualifications other than those of general culture and knowledge. To know a lot about analysis is no guarantee of being a good technician any more than being a good critic of the theory of art can make one a good painter. The formula? are secondary to the practice. Art must precede the science.