ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author aims to illuminate the clinical theories that therapists carry with them into sessions where they operate implicitly, directing their attention to select sorts of data that are then used to fashion an intervention. This, then, is the ultimate lesson of the Clinical Moments Project — to learn how to listen to how therapists listen to the unfolding material. The author talks about analysts ("commentators") of varying theoretical persuasions to weigh in, sharing what they think about the situation and how they imagine they might have proceeded. J. Sandler noted that analysts sometimes find themselves unwittingly acting in ways that are uncharacteristic of them for reasons that escape them. Some analysts have gone so far as to assert that a successful analysis necessarily and invariably hinges on the development and working through of enactments.
