ABSTRACT
The psychoanalyst who openly accepts the therapeutic impact of his countertransference may invoke its changing processes and patterns in order to guide and integrate the experience of both himself and his patient for the ongoing and future conditions of their work together. A psychoanalyst's reaction to his patient's reaction to countertransference depends on his given resources of affective and cognitive experience in response to that particular patient's transference, resistance and anxiety, love and hate, anger and self-pity, hostility and manipulation - or more generally, in response to the qualities and traits of the patient's relatedness in therapy. Every psychoanalyst engaging in the clinical work of therapy, not unlike the physicist or biologist engaged in experimental work in the laboratory, has to find within himself the best way to fit that structure of inquiry to the unique resources of his own individual psychology.
