ABSTRACT
With the shift from a one-person to a two-person psychology that has defined the relational turn in psychoanalysis has come a heightened attention to the personal involement of patient and analyst and of the affective link between them. Karen Maroda has courageously called for emotional honesty and affective self-disclosure in the analytic encounter. While Maroda’s work is profoundly personal and creative, however, more than others, she has also insisted that theorists of psychoanalytic technique articulate the principles that guide their clinical interventions so that these procedures can be taught and studied systematically. She began to outline her own systematization of psychoanalytic technique in her 1991 book, The Power of Countertransference (reprinted 2004 by The Analytic Press) and continued her exploration in Seduction, Surrender, and Transformation (1999, The Analytic Press), a sample from which follows.
