ABSTRACT
This chapter uses more Benjamin's ideas about mutual recognition as the ability both to recognize and to be recognized by another and shows how difficult it becomes when deal with conflict. In relational psychology, enactment is the focus of attention more than the notion of resistance, transference, and countertransference that governed the scene in traditional psychodynamic approaches. Suchet's article shows how the therapist cannot avoid the political and social environment, even against her will: "As the work unfolded I find myself thrust into a psychic and social space had not wanted to inhabit, into the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the turmoil of Jewish identity". Intersubjective theories follow Stern's observations and research about the importance of mother-infant optimal attunement and mutuality. Updated neuroscience research even shows how right-hemisphere networks of attachment, social relationships, and affect regulation are built during childhood in an experience-dependent manner through the attunement of parent and child.
