João Sousa Monteiro is psychoanalyst in private practice, in Lisbon, Portugal. He worked in supervision with Donald Meltzer monthly for thirteen years. Meltzer supervised all his clinical cases during this period.

Preface by Michael Eigen Introduction by Alberto Hahn CH1 "...for a patient to discover this atmosphere of passionate interest in his mental life is the real therapeutic factor in analysis, I think." CH2 Experiencing the session in the transference versus experiencing it outside the transference: the difference between analysis and psychotherapy CH3 Dreams as babies brought to the analyst though also as actings in the transference CH4 "If you don't see and feel the intensity and the immediacy of the transference, then you see it in this diminished light as simply a repetition of the past." CH5 "When she lowers the passion, she lowers the value of everything, and then abandonment is so much easier" CH6 The importance of the concept of forgiveness as a key factor in "creating a new way of thinkingabout things" CH7 "...it has to be made in the depths... (long silence)... in love for the truth... (long silence)...in love for the truth..." CH8 "It's not the badness that has made the secrecy; it's the secrecy that has made the badness" CH9 "JSM: Do you take notes of the sessions you think are important? DM: Oh no, I take notes on every session. JSM: On every session of every patient? DM: On every session of every patient. JSM - And you see fourteen patients a day..." CH10 "I can't come [to the session], I feel it...I'm a piece of shit...I'll come as soon as I feel human..." CH11 The faecal nature of the devil CH12 "...worrying about your patient is terribly important... the only way we have of keeping the patients safe is to be worried about them." CH13 "Well, it's like introducing the left breast to the right breast..." CH14 "...I have to come here to know what I'll do the next hour..." CH15 Wrestling with triumph CH16 "...the way in which she does it is by crawling inside everybody and controlling them from inside" CH17 Mother's inside transformed into a golden grave for the triumphant child CH18 "...all her actions have to be listened as if they were dreams..." CH19 Projective identification into the internal mother may infuse into the subject's haemorrhoids such an intensely coloured pathological life CH20 An acting in the counter-transference re-enacted in the course of a supervision session CH21 "The thing about life in the claustrum is that it is cut off from the beauty of the world" APPENDIX DONALD MELTZER'S CLAUSTRUM THEORY- A BRIEF SURVEY