Abstract
Darlene Ehrenberg explicates a distinctly innovative interpersonal tradition: the use of countertransference experience to shed light not only on the analytic transaction but on the psyche of the patient as well. She argues convincingly that the strongest analytic work lies in the closest possible examination of the interactions between the two analytic co-participants, both what is obvious and what is subtle - and always what is affective. To the extent that such examination is avoided, she believes the optimal psychoanalytic configuration - the potential for - goes unrecognized and undeveloped. Ehrenberg's use of the term intimacy to describe optimal analytic engagement is particularly apt. She recognized fully the degree to which analytic engagement is mutual - that is, analyst and patient mutually influence one another. She makes a strong argument for the value of analysts' deliberate disclosure of affective experience.
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