ABSTRACT
In this chapter, a series of questions posed by Dr. Stephen Mitchell, editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues: A Journal of Relational Perspectives, provides the structure for the consideration of a wide range of analytic topics concerning analytic metapsychology, clinical theory, developmental theory, and analytic technique. When one does elect to communicate one's understanding in the form of an interpretation, it has seemed to be of central importance to attempt to help the patient talk to the analyst about what it is that is frightening him about being in the room with the analyst at that moment. The "maintenance of the frame" of psychoanalysis is not simply a reflection of rigid obsessionality on the part of the analyst, but a very important arena for communication between patient and analyst. Each of the major lines of thought constituting analytic theory has been developed to a considerable degree in its own language and has its own epistemology.
