ABSTRACT
Speaking of therapeutic action in psychoanalysis in the singular as the therapeutic action is misleading in as much as mutative change occurs in myriad ways and depends on many factors, including the patient’s unconscious theory of change. The analyst’s use of theory and technical proficiency, and the nature of the patient’s psychic functioning in combination with that of the analyst. The term “mind” requires clarification because it is used psychoanalytically in many ways. It conceive of mind as the psychic representation of the processing brain in its myriad functions dealing with external and internal stimulation, including sensory-bodily as well as imagistic and verbal associative thought processes. There is a broad consensus that the analytic enterprise is both a one-person and a two-person psychology requiring an intrapsychic and bi-personal model. As Bolognini states, “[T]he intra- and inter-psychic dialectic is one of the recurrent themes of contemporary psychoanalysis”.
