The analytic attitude

1 The analytic attitude: an introduction. 2 The atmosphere of safety: Freud's "Papers on technique" (1911-1915). 3 The psychoanalyst's empathic activity. 4 Appreciation in the analytic attitude. 5 Resisting and empathizing. 6 Conflict as paradoxical actions. 7 Danger situations. 8 The interpretation of transference and the conditions for loving. 9 The analysis of character. 10 The analysis of resisting. 11 Psychoanalytic interpretation. 12 Psychoanalytic reconstruction. 13 The construction of multiple histories. 14 Narration in the psychoanalytic dialogue. 15 Action and narration in psychoanalysis. 16 The imprisoned analysand. 17 On becoming a psychoanalyst of one persuasion or another

'Exploring the mind of the analyst at work as it is evidenced in the analyst's empathy, Schafer stresses the need to establish an "atmosphere of safety" in relation to the dangers the patient perceives when facing the possibility of insight and personal change. In his retelling of the concepts of transference and resistance, Shafer emphasizes what is progressive, affirmative, and new in the experience, along with what has been traditionally emphasized as the regressive, negative, and repetitious. Interpretation and reconstruction of the past, two of the most essential activities of the analytic process, receive original and fascinating treatment....'

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