The Analyst’s Vulnerability: Impact on Theory and Practice

Abstract

“the transmission of an experience that is not intimidated by intimacy even when the intimacy of the dialogue might buffet and injure you, and does not flinch from bearing witness to the injustice and pain connected to it” (p. 151). Psychoanalysis, Borgogno holds “only brings change if the analyst ‘is’ good, in the double sense of good as a ‘professional’ and good as a ‘person’” [Citing Racker (1958), p. 152]; and he seems hopeful that—having accompanied him on this very personal journey of remembrance—the reader’s experience will include an understanding of what Borgogno’s version of “being good”means. DAVID G. POWER (CAMBRIDGE, MA)