ABSTRACT
In this chapter the author shares his experiences as a psychoanalyst. While he was training to be a psychoanalyst and in his early years as a psychoanalyst, he read the writings of many of the well-known analysts. Of the English school, the author read all the works of Melanie Klein, Donald Winnicott, and Michael Balint, and then he alighted upon Wilfred Bion. The author was at the time attending a fortnightly group supervision with Herbert Rosenfeld, whose understanding of psychosis was legendary, but he planned to compare the two men with the purpose of illuminating even more clearly Wilfred Bion's particular qualities. Both men had a profound knowledge of psychosis and it was a knowledge that was born of experience. Psychoanalysis was at the centre of their lives. For Rosenfeld all truth was subservient to psychoanalysis, but for Bion psychoanalysis was the servant of truth.
