ABSTRACT
Hyman Spotnitz presents a rationale for the therapist's utilization of his counterfeelings. Spotnitz indicates how counterfeelings can be put to therapeutic use. Toxoid responses are employed in the treatment process to immunize a patient against the return of resistant attitudes. Continuing efforts to expedite the therapeutic process and enhance its effectiveness for patients in all categories also expose the traditional attitudes and practices to searching inquiry. The toxoid responses were administered in the case to invigorate him with sufficient understanding to recognize and protect him under circumstances that might encourage a revival of self-attacking tendency. The toxoid response is compounded in the pure culture of the feelings induced in the analyst by the patient as a real person. The practitioner who can permit him to experience the induced feelings, convert them into toxoid responses, and communicate these as necessary in the course of resistance analysis works comfortably with narcissistic patients.
