title: The Pope's confessor: a metaphor relating to illness in the analyst.
abstract: This paper examines some of the internal and external eventualities in the situation of illness in the analyst. The current emphasis on the use of the self as part of the analyzing instrument makes impairments in the analyst's physical well-being potentially disabling to the analytic work. A recommendation is made for analysts, both individually and as a professional group, to always consider this aspect of a personal medical problem.
authors.affiliation: Psychoanalytic Institute, New York University School of Medicine, USA.
authors.forename: R W
authors.initials: RW
authors.lastname: Clark
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000523:psychology; D003379:Countertransference; D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D004532:Ego; D005260:Female; D005619:Freudian Theory; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015412:Mastectomy, Segmental / Q000523:psychology; D008875:Middle Aged; D010815:Physician Impairment / Q000523:psychology*; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy; D012650:Self Disclosure; D012803:Sick Role; D014167:Transference, Psychology