ABSTRACT
This chapter has two goals, as reflected in its double title. The first, Credo, has as its focus the inevitability that every analyst theorizes, indeed thinks and practices on the basis of a belief system or credo. The second part of the title both points to the vehicle for containing and organizing the expression of this particular author's credo, and at the same time represents a study in its own right: the question of a one-person versus a two-person psychology. The chapter accounts for an autonomous self, in contrast with the self-system, however inaccessible to consciousness it may be, and accounts for it on the basis of a thoroughgoing experiential interpersonal two-person psychology. The two subjects discussed are one man's psychoanalytic belief system, and secondly, a study of the question of the role of one-person and two-person psychologies in psychoanalytic theory.
