Loving Psychoanalysis Technique and Theory in the Therapeutic Relationship

Loving Psychoanalysis is written by an analyst who loves doing psychoanalysis and who believes that psychoanalysis is fundamentally a loving endeavor. Susan S. Levine argues that the proper working attitude of the analyst is not one of neutrality, in the sense of the blank screen, but one of loving. This love should be expressed through the deepest empathy of which the analyst is capable, through the disciplined use of the arts and crafts of attention and interpretation, thoughtful abstinence, considered anonymity, and the inevitable self-revelations and necessary self-disclosures that each particular patient requires. Book jacket.

Susan S. Levine is in private practice in psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, and supervision in Ardmore, Pennsylvania.