ABSTRACT
The psychoanalytic inquiry seems predominantly designed as an exploration of the patient's psyche, personal history, intrapsychic, and interpersonal dynamics, the analyst, as participant observer in the process, inevitably presents him or herself to the scrutiny of the patient. Each analytic dyad represents the interaction between the unique individuality of the patient and the unique individuality of the analyst. Each analytic session offers multitude of choice points where patients and analysts can make overt their observations, hunches, and reactions regarding what they know or perceive of the other, and what the other seems to know about them. The notion of maintaining analytic anonymity seems not only an impossible goal but perhaps an archaic and undesirable one as well. For many analysts whose theoretical beliefs and practices would have them forego the notion of analytic neutrality and anonymity, the default position of the therapist is often a non-revelatory one in terms of our personal experience, life history and, at times, subjective experience.
