I am grateful to the Institute of Psychoanalysis, London, UK for granting permission to publish the following papers:
Chapter 2 is based on “On talking-as-dreaming,” International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 88: 575–589, 2007, © Institute of Psychoanalysis, London.
Chapter 3 is based on “On psychoanalytic supervision,” International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 86: 1265–1280, 2005, © Institute of Psychoanalysis, London.
Chapter 4 is based on “On teaching psychoanalysis,” International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 87: 1069–1085, 2006, © Institute of Psychoanalysis, London.
Chapter 5 is based on “Elements of analytic style: Bion’s clinical seminars,” International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 88: 1185–1200, 2007, © Institute of Psychoanalysis, London.
Chapter 7 is based on “Reading Loewald: Oedipus reconceived,” International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 87: 651–666, 2006, © Institute of Psychoanalysis, London.
Chapter 8 is based on “Reading Harold Searles,” International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 88: 353–369, 2007, © Institute of Psychoanalysis, London.
I would like to express my gratitude to Marta Schneider Brody for her invaluable comments on the manuscripts of each of the chapters in this book. I would also like to thank Patricia Marra for the care and thought that she put into the production phase of this volume. I am also grateful to Tom Richardson for the cover illustration which is made up of a mosaic of photographs of the stone labyrinth on the floor of the Chartres Cathedral.