One might say that the analyst counts on the patient's unconscious work, while conscious
work is, to some extent, just one more thing to be deconstructed (analyzed). Analyst and …

ONE DAY, as I was dashing through a subway turnstile, only to see the train I was trying to
catch leave the station, an elderly subway employee said to me," well, you missed this train …

The first approach is an adaptation of the “classical” mode of psychoanalysis, as I came to
understand it. An essential property of psychoanalysis as a treatment has always been that it …

It is a privilege to be a psychoanalyst. Our group is scandalously small. There are only a few
thousand professionals in the world who study individual minds in the only way they can …

The psychoanalytic process remains a fascinating and valuable concept, albeit an
incompletely understood and controversial one. The author reviews the ideas in his 1 984 …

The author draws a distinction between the goals of psychoanalysis and its therapeutic
action. Goals are consciously (or at least preconsciously) held by the analyst, and can be …

INTERPERSONAL INFLUENCE CAN BE EFFECTIVE without being known. We take this for
granted. Constant and mutual influence is the rule. We do not have to know what we are …

eration of an unacknowledged concept of the psychoanalytic situation and the
psychoanalytic process may be a difficult no tion for the psychoanalytic candidate to …

When the Editors-in-Chief of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis invited me to join
their team as editor of 'The Analyst at Work'section, I did not take long to answer affirmatively …

There is countertransference, not just to individual patients, but to the process of
psychoanalysis itself. The analytic process is a contentious topic. Disagreements about its …