ABSTRACT
This chapter describes, in detail, the way the patterns of relationship manifest themselves in the analytic relationship—the internal working models on the transference level. The patients' mothers had all been depressed and/or chronically emotionally unavailable—a dynamic that is gradually reconstructed in the analytic relationship. In regard to the co-construction of the analytic relationship, Beebe and Lachmann wrote of infants and their mothers at four months: In our dyadic systems view of face-to-face interaction, each person's action is constituted in coordination with that of the partner; each person's behavior is affected both by his own immediately prior behaviour. Davies describes the co-construction in terms of a "therapeutic enactment", where there is a collapsing of past and present; a co-constructed organization of the transference. Re-enactments are not a licence for "wild analysis", where the analyst may justify taking on any role as being "required" to further the patient's therapy.
