Jacques Stifelman

The Boston Globe, December 15, 2002


Robert Boynton

....."But in a confidential memo, the honorary secretary of the Institute's ethical committee raises a few topics for his colleagues' "consideration." Psychoanalysts, the memo notes, must recognize the existence of "perverse and psychotic areas in ourselves while concurrently trying to analyze such areas of the personalities in our patients." It then asks: "Where does our first loyalty lie? To patients or to colleagues?" Finally, it broaches the least welcome idea of all: "the limitations of psychoanalysis as a treatment, and the hazard of omnipotence and omniscience."