Commentary on Searles's Case Conference Transcript and Chestnut Lodge.

These reminiscences about Dr. Searles and others at Chestnut Lodge, and about Chestnut Lodge itself, and the treatment process there, allow readers to consider changes in psychiatric and psychoanalytic thinking, alternating between biological and interpersonal orientations. Chestnut Lodge and Dr. Searles were noted for an intensive, psychoanalytic approach, and the author makes a case for its enduring value. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]