ABSTRACT
As analysands and analysts, we stand at the interface between theory and experience. We are in a unique position to contribute to the articulation of what is effective in analysis by sharing our experiences of being patients in our personal analyses. From the 1950s through the 1970s, a small body of literature was amassed describing such experience (Jung, 1973; Guntrip, 1975; Little, 1981). This practice seemed to have fallen by the wayside until recent years, when there has been an ef orescence of analysts’ candid descriptions of their analyses (Stolorow, 2007; Bornstein, 2011; Deutsch, 2011; Dimen, 2011; Levin, 2011; Wixom, 2011). I deeply appreciate the uniqueness of these authors’ contributions. They open highly personal discussions of phenomenology that stand in contrast to usual attempts to describe patients’ experiences secondhand.
