ABSTRACT
The mode of analytic participation originally articulated by Edgar Levenson and elaborated by Stephen Mitchell and Jay Greenberg. The current debate over whether insight or a new experience with the psychoanalyst is the primary mutative agent in psychoanalysis is artificially resolved by dividing the patient population along diagnostic lines. Perhaps one extreme opposite of the blank-screen paradigm is illustrated by Michels. Sullivan saw himself as an expert in interpersonal relations. His role as an expert provided security and reduced anxiety. Sullivan's legacy has taken two directions in the Interpersonal school. Those who have stayed closest to him focus minimally on the here and now transference issues and on making the analytic relationship. Perhaps one extreme opposite of the blank-screen paradigm is illustrated by Michels in his review of the competing current trends in psychoanalysis. Melanie Klein and her followers were a strong force in opening analytic access both to children and to more seriously disturbed patients.
