Attention and Interpretation

TL;DR: In this paper, the analysis of the patient's experience of the analyst's subjectivity in the psychoanalytic situation is presented, and it is shown that patients seek to connect to their analysts, to know them, to probe beneath their professional facade, and to reach their psychic centers much in the same way that children seek connecting to and penetrating their parents' inner worlds.

TL;DR: Signs and contraindications to this particular therapeutic approach derived from the clinical experience that evolved in the course of the sequence of research projects leading to the empirical establishment of its efficacy are described.

TL;DR: Self-disclosure of countertransference may be useful in some situations, but the sharing of some feelings will overwhelm patients and burden them in a way that may be destructive to the therapeutic process.

TL;DR: Fairbairn's view of the personality is described as a system of parts of self and object in dynamic relation, formed in the context of dependent early relationships and replayed in the intensely intimate and physical relationship of marriage.