Anthony Bass (2015) The Dialogue of Unconsciouses, Mutual Analysis and the Uses of the Self in Contemporary Relational Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 25:1, 2-17,
This essay explores the links between Ferenczi’s understanding of psychoanalysis
as a radically mutual endeavor in which unconscious communication between
patient and analyst flows in both directions, his experiments in mutual analysis as reported
in his Clinical Diary, and the subsequent and ongoing development of a relational theory
of technique. The essay examines the ways in which Ferenczi’s radical experiments in analytic
technique expanded the possibilities for joint, direct transference/countertransference
exploration, illuminating the complex permutations of implicit, as well as expressive
and transparent ways therapist and patient can utilize the full range of feelings,
thoughts, fantasies, body, and self-states that emerge in the field of therapy.
