ABSTRACT
Along with his colleagues Anthony Bass, Irwin Hirsch, and Warren Wilner, the author was the writer of his generation most deeply steeped in, and inspired by, the perspective developed over the period between the 1950s and the late 1980s by Benjamin Wolstein. When Sandor Ferenczi's clinical diaries were finally published in 1988, both Wolstein and the author found in Ferenczi a devotion to the clinical values closely related to those they had long embraced. The author emphasized during his entire career the inevitable uniqueness of the individual person and of each analytic couple. He always advocated a theoretical and clinical commitment to the significance of spontaneity, vitality, and direct and immediate experience in the analytic situation. The author describes two previous models: the "nonparticipant paradigm", and the "interpersonal participant-observer paradigm". He often expresses his commitment to the kind of Wolsteinian or Frommian clinical practice.
