Commentaries

First published in 1996. This is Volume 12 number 4 of Psychoanalytic Inquiry 1996. Lawrence Friedman has given psychoanalysts a fresh slant on the analytic situation. He has written of the experience of the analyst which until recently was uncommon in analytic literature. He has asked how analysts think in the analytic situation. This issue of Psychoanalytic Inquiry recognizes that ‘The Anatomy of Psychotherapy’ is a significant book and this is a collection of articles with commentaries by a variety of analytic writers followed by Lawrence Friedman's response that seeks to illuminate the important issues taken up in the book.