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. Countertransference enactments offer unique opportunities to help the patient and the analyst learn more about themselves in an experientialfashion. While such enactments have been classically conceptualized as resulting from the patient acting in ways designed to stimulate the analyst more inclined to think of enactments as arising from the process of dissociation.
