Main description:

This book presents a way to formulate, from several points of view, "Psychoanalysis as an encounter between two persons", and highlights the aspects of symmetry and affective exchange of this encounter where analysis is seen as a relationship between two minds. In this shared experience the study of the mind of the Analyst and of his method of work

Contents:

Foreword -- INTRODUCTION -- The Analytic Relationship -- Two people talking in a room: an investigation on the analytic dialogue -- Meeting, telling, and parting: three basic factors in the psychoanalytic experience -- From a play between "parts" to transformations in the couple: psychoanalysis in a bipersonal field -- The Analyst's Mind -- The tale of the green hand: on projective identification -- Surviving, existing, living: reflections on the analyst's anxiety -- The Clinical Field -- Premature termination of analysis -- Negative therapeutic reactions and microfractures in analytic communication -- On transference psychosis: clinical perspectives in work with borderline patients -- Cassandra: a myth for hypochondria