This book reflects certain continuity, dealing with the issue of how to be an analyst—through the different stages by which the author's psychoanalytic identity develops, from candidate to analyst and sometimes on to training analyst—in the continually changing world of our time.

This book presents a way to formulate, from several points of view, "Psychoanalysis as an encounter between two persons", and highlights the aspects of symmetry and affective exchange of this encounter where analysis is seen as a relationship between two minds. In this shared experience the study of the mind of the Analyst and of his method of work