The Psychoanalytic Quarterly 1987/1. [antikvár]

EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION The idea that The Psychoanalytic Quarterly should present, as a special issue, a collection of papers on the subject of psychoanalytic technique from 1914 to 1984 was originally conceived by Dr. Jacob A. Arlow and then developed by Dr. Dale Boesky. By the time the present editor took the helm, the project was already well under way. A list of possible contributors, distinguished analysts from all points of the theoretical spectrum, had been compiled and somé invitations had been issued. It remained only for us to complete the invitation process and await the manuscripts. At that juncture The Quarterly had a stroke of extreme good fortune when Dr. Sámuel A. Guttman asked us if we would be interested in publishing the Waelder Lectures. This material, which was organized and edited by Dr. Guttman and his wife, Irene Kagan Guttman, from Dr. Waelder's notes, represents a unique formulation of state-of-the-art technique at the time the lectures were given -1941-1942, about the midpoint of the seventy-year period that we had chosen for review. The editors immediately recognized the extraordinary value of including the Waelder Lectures in our special issue on technique. Students of psychoanalysis will be fascinated to see how much of what Dr. Waelder recommended at that time remains fresh and valid today, and will be challenged to think about why whatever may now seem out of date has become so. As for the other papers in the collection, it will be evident that no effort was made by The Quarterly to arrange a systematic survey of the field of technique. Each contributor was simply invited to present his views and each responded in his own particular fashion. Somé took a historical approach, others gave us a statement of a particular point of view, while still others of-