ABSTRACT
Being different and alike, understood as being both individuated and connected, makes a person whole. The ability to oscillate comfortably between these two fundamental states is the mark of mental health (see Guarton, 1999). In relationships, both partners must reconcile their needs for agency and communion. Analytic success depends on the ability of both participants to surmount transference-countertransference binds (which Levenson [1994] views as inevitable versions of the master/slave dialectic).
