ABSTRACT
Candidates should be free in their choice of a supervisor who are able to listen, who respects different styles of working, with good analytic experience, theoretical knowledge, and an interest and willingness to teach and work together with younger colleagues. Perhaps more than anything, a candidate must struggle to develop his or her own way of being an analyst, with an inner space for expanding the mind and building an independent thinking, able to listen to different ways of thinking and addressing the analytic patient. In the author's view, both the Institutes and national, regional, and international institutions should offer and develop programmes of continuous analytic education, with emphasis in analytic practice, as the IPA is currently doing, as a way of stimulating members and candidates alike in their analytic clinics. It is important to analyse all sorts of fantasies produced by these encounters, as well as use them to evaluate the march of idealization in each analysis.
