“…While neglecting, for the most part, the role of peers, various writers have considered the role of the training analyst and the clinical supervisors in the development of a psychoanalyst (e.g., Ferenczi & Rank, 1925;Glover, 1955;Langs, 1976;Racker, 1968;Searles, 1979;Wolstein, 1959). The training analyst maintains many parent functions, most obviously in fantasy, but also in reality.…”