ABSTRACT
Donald Moss, PhD has been in private practice in New York City for over forty years. He is the author of Hating in the First Person Plural, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Man, and At War with the Obvious, and over fifty articles. He is on the editorial boards of Psychoanalytic Quarterly and the International Journal of Psychoanalysis. Dr Moss worries about the in-the-roomedness of current treatments. Although Dr Moss says that he’s not an in-the-room kind of person, he is above all invested in his treatments having depth, the sort of experience that can only develop between two people in a deep conversation. The patient felt sceptical about the enthusiasm, thought it a bit forced and out of character for his analyst, but he appreciated at that moment how hard his analyst was trying to make contact with him, even against his own grain, and it stuck as a very significant moment in the analysis.
