ABSTRACT
Bill Grossman thought that psychoanalysis is a way of thinking in which reciprocity between analyst and patient is a necessary feature. He made a distinction between static and process characteristics. He was impressed by the fact that the discourse between them had become more mutually understandable. For Freud, neurotic patients had been the model, the typical patient, but now borderline patients were the typical patient, the model for contemporary analysts. There is a primitive intense transference in borderlines, which immediately activates an intense countertransference that threatens the frame (setting). Borderline patients tend to defend themselves against the representational frame of affects by acting out and in somatization. Andre and Gregorio look for the dominant affect of the patient, which they regard as the selected fact. It is seen through the vertex of analytic experience of the total transference situation.
