How Does Change Occur Within the Psychoanalytic Encounter?

On November 6, 2002, Dr. James Fosshage delivered the following talk at a Clinical Training Conference held at the Blanton-Peale Institute. The Clinical Training Conference at Blanton-Peale provides experiential and conceptual resources to support the therapist-in-training in the context of his/her professional identity. The training conference is attended by candidates of all phases of the Psychoanalytic Program, the Pastoral Psychotherapy Program, and the Marriage and Family Program, as well as faculty members, administrators, staff, and interns of the institute. The residents were asked to review three articles written by Dr. Fosshage in preparation for his presentation: “Toward Reconceptualising Transference: Theoretical and Clinical Considerations,” International Journal of Psycho-Analysis (1994) 75 (2): 265–280; “Countertransference as the Analyst's Experience of the Analysand: Influence of Listening Perspectives,” Psychoanalytic Psychology (1995) 12 (3): 375–391; and “Listening/Experiencing Perspectives and the Quest for a Facilitating Responsiveness,” Conversations in Self Psychology: Progress in Self Psychology , (1997) 13: 33–55. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]