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Freud's early sanguine assumption that anyone who could learn to analyse his own dreams could practise analysis has progressed to its own antipodes. We now must ask the serious question how anyone can practise analysis without being damaged. Of course every occupation has its special hazards, so no complaint is allowable. Rather it is necessary to look with a sober glance at the hazards of psycho-analytic work, construe and test the safety measures and prophylactic schemes.
No doubt in its own way the so called training analysis has been the bastion of self-defence of the analyst against the rigours of analytic work and will continue to be so, most realistically when it is continued in a systematic way as a self-analysis. The second rampart has been the analytic method, the faithful pursuit of which has been the psychoanalyst's best defence against being lured into ambush of counter-transference activites, the harbinger of which is almost always the breach in technique.
Probably neither of these preparatory schemes can continue to function effectively for the practising analyst without the scientific society of other analysts, at seminars and scientific meetings, supervisions and congresses. The history of analysis in the future is not likely to include the lone pioneer bringing this discipline to new areas of the earth. It will almost certainly be possible only as group efforts. What part the published literature plays in all this is still, I believe, obscure. Certainly only the intellectual outlines of a scientific advance in our