Psychoanalytic Technique and the Creation of Analytic Patients

This is a book on a neglected aspect of psychoanalytic technique that should be read by everyone who hopes to develop a psychoanalytic practice. The author's emphasis on the value of analyzing a prospective patient's motives for avoiding analysis is of utmost importance.

Arnold Rothstein

Preface to the Second Edition , Introduction , Introductory Phase Work , Beginning Analysis with a Reluctant Patient , Beginning Analysis with Patients Who Are Reluctant to Pay the Analyst's Fee , On Doing a Consultation and Making the Recommendation of Analysis to a Prospective Analysand , On Analysts' Evaluating, Diagnosing, and Prognosticating , Fantasies of Failure, Name-Calling, and the Limits of Analytic Knowledge , Couples Therapy Conducted by a Psychoanalyst: Transference and Countertransference in Resistance to Analysis , Midphase Work , Who Maps Psychic Reality? , The Seduction of Money , Results and Conclusions