ABSTRACT
In the years following World War II researches in ego-psychology, and a greater understanding of the child-care techniques and the importance of the environment in the primitive stages of ego-development led to a more sensitive and careful assessment of the role of the analyst and the analytic setting towards the establishment and evolution of the clinical process, which in classical terms is called ‘the transference neurosis’. Greenson describes a clinical syndrome that has become the most frequent case over the past decade or so. He says: In the early years of psycho-analysis, patients coming for treatment were suffering from symptom neuroses, a relatively clean-cut and well-defined group of pathological formations. This chapter focuses on the development and vicissitudes of the clinical process in the analytic setting, the interplay of the transference and counter-transference, as the regressive and integrative processes crystallized in the analytic setting.
