The authors’ requirement that we as therapists become personal with our patients (within an analytic framework) is one reason that what they have to say to us might feel demanding. It is indeed a demand, one they would say our patients make upon us, to be there, person to person, at those moments when the patient is calling upon, and needs to use, something in us and in our own histories. One of the mentors cited in this book, Martin Cooperman, once commented that in psychotherapy the patient comes with his symptoms and the therapist comes with his technique, and if things go well, they both come out from hiding.
Davoine, Francoise. History Beyond Trauma (Kindle location 218-222). Other Press. 2004, Kindle edition.
now, why "within an analytic framework" is still needed ? and, how does "becoming personal" coexist with "within an analytic framework" ? here lies the mystery of intersubjectivity, which means it is subjective, yet it is also not only subjective, though i'd rather not use the word objective here
