ABSTRACT
The analogy often attached to psychoanalysis, and thereby to psychotherapy, is that it is like archaeology. Transference is often one of the most difficult facets of psychotherapy for patients to grasp and ultimately to accept. In psychotherapeutic improvisation, the biographical information to be brought to bear on the here-and-now of the stage set is already contained within the actor as his own autobiographical history. One of the goals of psychotherapy is to restore us to a good self, less "false" and more "true", but still socialized. It is to make us into our own therapists for life, able to witness, monitor and enact the truest aspects of our being. Psychodynamic psychotherapy is that: dynamic. It deals with the living, changing organism of self, and it deals with that living, changing organism dynamically, through its constantly shifting perceptions, reactions and interpretations–both in the lived life outside the clinical setting and within the clinical setting itself.
