ABSTRACT
Matte Blanco has been accused of being short on clinical case studies to lend weight to theory. This is true of his earlier work (1975) but he certainly made up for it later (1988). However, even if the criticism were wholly justified, he still points the way in several new therapeutic directions. We shall look at some of these now, but, more generally, it must be mentioned that bi-logically minded analysts have said that they sit behind the couch in a slightly different basic mood than before. Some have said it helps them with borderline phenomena; others see it as evoking a greater openness to the omnipresence of paradoxes in mental life; and others still suggest that it has helped them use their own emotionality in a more free-ranging but rigorously neutral way (Casaula et al. 1994). Let us now look at a few lines of therapeutic enquiry using bi-logic.
