ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author presents a clinical case example of a couple at Tavistock relationships. This couple quickly became dependent on the therapy because, in a healthy way, they knew they needed a container and were able to respond to the therapist's offer. Initially they may only have sensed the therapist being able to hear each of them reasonably accurately, despite also experiencing him as mishearing, unfair, or projecting into them. Nonetheless, therapy enabled them, over time, to build a less fearful, less paranoid view of the other's interest. Therapy itself offered more safety than they had previously felt. Gradually they were able to take inside a more benign experience of the therapist's curiosity about them, in other words to allow and slowly appreciate a non-intrusive exploration inside themselves and their relationship.
