The Reality of Doing: Discussion of Arthur A. Gray’s Paper.

The author describes his own more expansive application of Sanford Meisner’s “Repeat Exercise” to psychoanalysis (a) as pertaining conceptually to the entire psychoanalytic situation; (b) as a practical approach to experiencing and observing the relational field, and as such might be useful in training analysts; and (c) as a way to orient the analyst, more like an organizing principle than a strategic tool for particularly problematic moments, for work in the transference/countertransference. The author also argues that the case vignette Dr. Gray presents is an intervention that has some of the effects that can be associated with a mutative interpretation. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]