You do not currently have permission to view the full text for this document. Please sign in to an account with an active subscription or contact support.
What time can achieve, human intelligence cannot.
Much has been written about and presented at various conferences regarding the upheaval in psychoanalysis in the last 25 years or so. This paradigm shift represents a great change in emphasis in the analyses that are now conducted (Ornstein and Kay, 1990; Skolnick and Warshaw, 1992; Shane and Shane, 1993; Sucharov, 1992). It is my aim to provide another view of this phenomenon, as a psychoanalytic supervisee, initially during the early 1970s and again in the mid-1990s.
In this chapter I trace my process of retrospectively supervising a case that I had once analyzed under supervision in the early 1970s. I also review a series of papers that my supervisor had written through the years of her work on early parent loss. I will comment on related issues of the relationship between theory and technique. These emerged during my review because I had noticed a difference in the analysis when I was able to intuitively work in a more contemporary style. Lindon (1991) has illustrated that various theoretical approaches may lead to satisfactory analytic results. My observation is that the progression toward contemporary