ABSTRACT
Robert Grossmark describes a treatment approach that emphasizes an unobtrusive and companioning analytic engagement and illustrates this with a description of a case. He offers a conceptualization of therapeutic action that embellishes and re-casts the psychoanalytic concepts of regression, intersubjectivity, and clinical intimacy. The author describes the clinical phenomena focusing on borrow from various threads of the contemporary psychoanalytic tapestry, including relational, object relations, contemporary Freudian, British independent, self psychology, intersubjective, infant research, and more. He recognizes that weaving these together can create some inconsistencies in language and theory. The author emphasizes the value of the analyst allowing this process to unfold, to accompany the patient, and to not close it off with interpretations or investigations of the relationship that do not come from within the patient. He offers his work with Kyle to illustrate that there are patients who can benefit from a wider range of relational practice.
