ABSTRACT
Dr Harald Leupold-Lowenthal, the current chairman of the Society, is not at all formal and stiff. He does not seem to seek the mantle of a priest or guru. He lives in a large old flat in the centre of Vienna. Leupold-Lowenthal also works from there. As you get to the first-floor landing, one plaque at one entrance tells you it is his home, the other entrance leads to his analysis room. He expands in the interview on the relationship any analyst must have with Freud and, especially, Freud's work. In 1972, he was responsible for mounting the Goethe Institute exhibition on Freud, an exhibition that travelled all over the world. Leupold-Lowenthal came to be an analyst by a circuitous route. He is sceptical about attempts in the USA to use drugs with analysis or to use group work because in both cases, it is not very clear what the individual is actually receiving.
