ABSTRACT
This chapter presents clinical material from two cases of psychoanalytic therapy in an attempt to illustrate how countertransference is related to the patient's insight, but mainly how countertransference affects the kind of insight the therapist chooses to offer his patient. According to Paula Heimann, countertransference "covers all the feelings which the analyst experiences towards his patient". Hatcher pointed out that insight is not a simple matter but a complex process in psychoanalytic therapy that depends on the interplay of several factors. Kris and Blum stated the view that in psychoanalytic therapy the therapist's main task is to provide and facilitate the patient's insight. The chapter discusses insight on the part of both patient and therapist. Insight can be defined as the new bits and pieces, conscious and unconscious, that the patient learns about himself during a given psychoanalytic session.
