ABSTRACT

Alan Kindler gave us some skillfully presented excerpts of his difficult-to-manage analysis of Joanna Churchill. He gave us verbatim details of the actual dialogue, as well as some of his own concurrent subjective experiences that influenced the nature and content of his interventions. With all of this, Alan takes us into his consulting room and invites us to reexperience with him (and with his patient) the vicissitudes of the analytic process created by its two participants. This is as it should be to enable us to learn whatever we can from the experience of the encounter between Joanna Churchill and Alan Kindler.