ABSTRACT
The analyst's response is a form of inner communication, representing an emerging awareness of the meaning of the patient's productions. This awareness has been conceptualized intuitively, that is, outside of the realm of consciousness (Arlow, 1979). This occurs in every analysis . In striving to remain sensitive to the patient's productions, there is the danger that we may disregard awareness of our own inner states and their significance . The experienced analyst learns to be at ease with these intrusions and to appreciate how mood, intellectual ruminations and free associations may represent indicators or clues, derivative expressions of an emerging insight that could lead to interpretation. What Dr. Windholz has been doing in consensual analysis is to systematize
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and to articulate in a cognitive and definitive manner what most experienced analysts do automatically and intuitively. But every practicing analyst needs to submit the products of intuition to disciplined and cognitive examination, not necessarily during the treatment process, but certainly in preparing for presentation or publication of case material.
