ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on certain aspects bearing upon the theme of healing and work in the deep psyche. It details the psychotherapist and the client in an intense relationship, relatively separated from the outside world, where transformative possibilities are heightened by the nature of their relationship. The resonance of the therapist, his/ her knowledge of the healing field, helps the client in this experience. It is argued that there may emerge some usual features once the inter-subjective field is constellated. Therapists are not meant personally to substitute for the damaged attachment relationships of the client nor to encourage extra-clinical attachment feelings to themselves. The Freudian style is centred on an analytic stance of the psychotherapist in which interpretation is the chief instrument. Therapists have experience of working with darkness and light: they are therefore able to help the client work through darkness and encourage the light of awareness and healing to emerge naturally within them.
