ABSTRACT
This chapter attempts to show how the externalization of the unconscious phantasy derivatives of internal object relationships by both analyst and patient can interact, making it vital for the analyst to keep in touch with his countertransference. It illustrates that the need to use both one-person and two-person models in order to understand such interaction by a rather graphic clinical example. One of the major theoretical issues in considering processes of interaction is the question of whether it is appropriate to use a one-person or two-person frame of reference. This is a complicated issue and one that cannot be answered simply by saying that the psychoanalytic model of the mind is a one-person model on the grounds that all information arising from the outside does so as mental representations of one sort or another. The chapter utilizes both a one-person and a multi-person model in psychoanalytic thinking.
