Pathways To Self-Knowledge Private Reflections and Mutual Super Vision And Other Shared Communications

摘要

As part of a national survey of analysts in the American Psychoanalytic Association, analysts responding to the questionnaire reported the different ways in which they continued their self-explorations stimulated by their work with patients. Twenty-six of these analysts were interviewed about this process. Their response clustered in four groupings: (1) analysts who revealed their self-reflections in writing; (2) analysts who used their self- discoveries in teaching; (3) analysts who communicated their self-discoveries to only a few people, most often a spouse and one or two close friend-colleagues; and (4) analysts who participated in peer groups or had several friends andlor friend-colleagues with whom they were mutually self-disclosing.