ABSTRACT
Dreher’s presentation makes one believe that the psychoanalysts do not need to be stuck in the quagmire of controversy that often paralyses creative endeavours. Her disinclination to close down thinking to single answers means that ideas can expand our understanding of the world and ourselves. Dreher’s wants us psychoanalysts to explore our psychic realities formed by our nature and our culture and how it is always unique – the psychoanalysts share a common outline of what makes a person, but who psychoanalysts each become is someone specific, different from all others. Though the treating psychoanalyst has information that no other person can provide in terms of what transpires, Dreher makes it clear that the treating analyst’s perspective cannot have the objectivity of a third-person observer. Dreher’s description of the clinical data the psychoanalysts study makes vivid and alive what it is that the peoples as psychoanalysts listen and respond to.
