Acknowledgments

Dedicated to MY TEACHERS, MY STUDENTS, and MY PATIENTS

It is impossible to thank individually all those who have contributed to this book. I consider all the authors listed in the bibliography among my official teachers; here I only want to express my gratitude more personally.

My father, Joel O. Greenschpoon, M.D., a general practitioner, is responsible for transmitting to me his concern and devotion to his patients and the profession of medicine. Otto Fenichel, my training analyst, inspired me by his unwavering dedication to the teaching of psychoanalysis and by his incorruptible honesty.

There is one unofficial group who must remain anonymous for reasons of discretion, but to them I owe perhaps the greatest debt of all. I refer to my patients, who managed to teach me a great deal about technique while I was attempting to treat them. I also learned much from the many candidates in training in the Los Angeles Institute for Psychoanalysis whom I have taught in seminars on psychoanalytic technique for more than twenty years. The psychiatric residents at the UCLA Medical Center at Los Angeles, California, also stimulated my teaching and learning of psychoanalysis.

There are some whom I can thank individually. I want to acknowledge my gratitude to Drs. Hanna Fenichel, Milton Wexler, Lawrence Friedman, Rudolf Ekstein, and Alfred Goldberg for the many fruitful discussions we have had over the years on technical problems. I benefited in particular from exchanging ideas with a number of my colleagues in Los Angeles, who participated in a post-graduate

seminar on special technical problems which continued for one and a half years, from the fall of 1959 to the summer of 1960. They included Drs. Richard Evans, Gerald Aronson, Arthur Ourieff, William Horowitz, Jack Vatz, Samuel Futterman, Marvin Berenson, Neal Peterson, Norman Atkins, and Seymour Bird. I also am grateful to Dr. Richard Newman, who read the manuscript in its entirety.

Nathan Leites was very helpful in formulating