ABSTRACT
Perhaps the most concerted effort so far to examine all the facets of change in psychoanalysis was made at the 29th International Psycho-Analytic Congress in London in 1975 , which was devoted entirely to that topic. In his concluding comments at the end of the Congress, Weinshel (1976) summarized it this way: " . . . many of the changes ... are really different ways of presenting the same issues from somewhat different points of view" (p. 458). But he also saw psychoanalysis currently as being in a period of greater ferment, with greater diversity in theory and practice, than ever before . Chosen to present differing points
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of view (like psychoanalytic gladiators) Rangell (1976) saw desirable psychoanalytic change as an evolutionary process building on what had been previously achieved, while Green (1976) declared psychoanalysis to be in need of fundamental changes in theory and technique in order to do more with the new clinical problems that he saw confronting psychoanalysts.
