ABSTRACT

This chapter presents the patients' stories and provides a range of experiences with a variety of analysts from Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, and some subsequent practitioners, which offer illuminating possibilities for comparison and contrast. J. A. Kottler and J. Carlson, although not writing primarily about psychoanalytic therapy, introduce the notion of the therapist’s narcissistic attachment to a theoretical agenda as a source of bad therapy. The role of the Psychoanalytic Club in all this was quite important. Many of the patients of the Jungian analysts practising in Zurich attended to hear lectures and join in discussions and seminars about Jungian ideas and practice. For some practitioners of psychoanalysis, nothing but the strict observance of the frame and the boundaries within the sessions will ensure that the work of the analysis is being properly carried out; anything else would subvert the process.