ABSTRACT
I am writing this chapter as a bit of a dinosaur or perhaps a relic of a former era. Once upon a time, in the 1960s and 1970s, I knew Heinz Kohut as an accidental friend and colleague. That description may strike some as self-deprecating, devaluing, and all those other frowned-upon descriptions of one's self-state. Instead, I am deeply grateful that some of the choices that I made early in my personal and professional life resulted in my being included in a small group of friends of Heinz Kohut. My life has been the richer for it in ways that I can only begin to express.
