ABSTRACT
In this chapter I describe the pathways I took from an early interest in sports reporting and radio broadcasting to becoming a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. I discuss my family background and some early influences that helped shape my personality and interests. I also attempt to depict the kind of training I received at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute and, especially, the atmosphere in which that training took place. I conclude with an account of some of the difficulties I encountered in writing about countertransference, the subjectivity of the analyst, and the thorny issue of self-disclosure.
