ABSTRACT
Dr. Macintosh describes a successful psychoanalytic psychotherapy in which the dissociated traumas of both therapist and patient contribute to ongoing enactments. She emphasizes that therapists must analyze their own dissociation in order to resolve transference/countertransference enactments, and notes correctly that “Discussions of the impact of the personal trauma histories of psychoanalysts are only beginning to emerge in the literature.” Dr. Macintosh tells of how her own dissociated traumas were triggered by her patient: “I dove deep into my own unsymbolized void as it was triggered in the work with William.”
