ABSTRACT
The British School of Psychoanalysis: The Independent Tradition, originally published three decades ago, has become a classic. It contains key papers written by representatives of the Independent tradition of the British Psychoanalytical Society and is an important document in the history of the Society itself. An important tenet of the Independent tradition is the requirement for the analyst to be attuned to the patient's emotional response and the need to monitor the impact this has on the analyst's counter-transference. Gregorio Kohon warns against an overextension of concept of projective identification and its current centrality in certain schools of thought. He suggests that Sandler, Holder, Kawenoka, Kennedy, and Neurath's description of transference as a 'multi-dimensional phenomenon' is equally applicable to countertransference. Kohon is a psychoanalyst, a writer and a poet; his use of metaphors is powerful and evocative. These metaphors are ways of addressing what, by definition, is beyond words: they are the very expression of the mobility of the psyche.
