ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book organizes a deeper discussion that brings in the analyst's feeling in a way that is both authentic and also consistent with the analyst's clinical neutrality. It considers the ways in which the analyst may be carrying countertransference responses to the patient's material that may come to life only in interchanges with a consultant/supervisor. The book determines the real struggle the analyst must engage to allow the encounter with the adolescent to deepen. It focuses explicitly on a group of patients who show excessive concern for their objects. The book develops long interest in authenticity in a particular way. It argues that in the clinical situation authenticity has two faces, that of the patient and that of the analyst. The book describes that adolescence's impact on patient and analyst, had taken flight into pseudo-maturity.
