ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the case study of Rafaela. It describes the nature of therapeutic action through a radicalized version of intersubjective systems theory. It demonstrates how psychotherapy is an outcome of a highly personal encounter between two unique human beings, and how, while the goal of psychoanalysis is to help the patient, this can only be achieved in as much as both participants are willing to undergo transformation. Analogously, our weaknesses are sometimes our strengths, and sometimes a disaster. Our strengths can also turn out to be a weakness in a given context. All analytic interpretations concerning the genetic precursors, the questionable premises of such a definition of agency and legal responsibility had gone up in smoke. The process of negotiating these differences in order to be able to be with one another is the essence of the treatment process.
