The Analytic Situation

Significant as has been the role of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in contemporary culture and society, its importance continues to grow at an accelerating rate as more specific, focused, and involving forms of therapy are devised

Peter F. Drucker

Introduction; 1: The Origins of Transference; 2: Silence as an Integrative Factor; 3: Silence as Communication; 4: On Silence; 5: What Do I Do When the Patient Cries?; 6: Patients Who Sleep or Look at the Psychoanalyst During Treatment; 7: The Use of First Names in Psychotherapy; 8: The Gift in Therapy; 9: On Taking Notes; 10: A Significant Comment Made by Patients When Relating their Dreams; 11: Setting a Termination Date: An Impetus to Analysis; 12: Therapeutic Results in Psychoanalytic Treatment Without Fee; 13: I'm Not Getting Any Better; 14: The Refusal to Mourn; 15: The Technique of Employing Doctor-Patient Transactions in Psychoanalysis; 16: Emotional Engagement of Patient and Analyst; 17: The Therapeutic Encounter; 18: The Importance of Flexibility in Psychoanalytic Technique; 19: The Commitment to Intimacy; 20: On the Rationale of Touch in Psychotherapy; 21: To Touch-Or Not To Touch; 22: Freud As Therapist: Include The Patient In Your World; 23: Psychotherapy as a Source of the Therapist's Own Authenticity and Inauthenticity