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The author of this volume hardly needs any introduction to readers familiar with analytic writings. This particular volume is based on an advanced seminar in technique which the author, a well-known teacher of long experience, has been giving at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute for the past four years. The course itself, also given at Philadelphia, consisted of quite systematic discussion of technical problems and procedures. It was in response to requests from his students for mimeographed copies of the seminars which prompted the decision to put the material in book form. Thus it was made available to students living far from teaching centers and for those in training who can now avail themselves of Lorand's ability as a teacher and theoretician. A good deal of the material has appeared in the author's other technical papers and books on various phases of technique.
Lorand has a healthy respect, as well as an open mind, for the newer advances and approaches made by contributors beside Freud. He is interested in evaluating as well as incorporating new methods based on newer clinical findings. He has included many of them in his lectures. The author was a close associate of Ferenczi and has been inclined to favor problems of therapy and technique. Borderline neuroses and psychoses are not discussed in this volume.
The author is unusually flexible for an orthodox freudian. He is inclined to stress flexibility, if and when the analyst is thoroughly analyzed himself and can back up his variations and modifications by long experience. He is careful to indicate to students the dangers of departures from usual procedures when they come from inexperience, and when they violate freudian dynamic principles. The author's illustrations of mishaps point up the many pitfalls lying in wait for the beginner. As could be expected from a teacher, Lorand's main emphasis and most fruitful insights concern the transference and counter-transference. The second chapter on interpretati