Near and Far:Closeness and Distance in Psychotherapy

This book is groundbreaking in its exploration of the controversial question of the therapist’s humanness and personal involvement in the analytic process while still maintaining a psychoanalytic foundation and a sense of his own separateness and professionalism. NEAR AND FAR distills the experience-distance conceptual contributions of modern object relations theory, and presents it in a form which is experience-near, and thus highly relevant to the clinician. (227 pgs)