In this clinically rich and deeply personal book, Chris Jaenicke demonstrates that the therapeutic process involves change in both the patient and the analyst, and that therapy will not have a lasting effect until the inevitability and depth of the analyst's involvement in the intersubjective field is better understood. In other words, in order to change, we must allow ourselves to be changed. This can happen within the sessions themselves, as one grasps the influence of and decenters from one's own subjectivity, with cumulative effects over the course of the treatment. Thus the process, limitations, and cure of psychotherapy are cocreated, without displacing the asymmetrical nature of roles and responsibility. Essentially, beyond the theories and techniques, it is the specificity of our subjectivity as it interacts with the patient's subjectivity which plays the central role in the therapeutic process.

Chris Jaenicke, Dipl. Psych., is a teacher and Training and Supervising Analyst at the Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Psychoanalyse und Psychotherapie, Germany. An editor of Self Psychology: European Journal for Psychoanalytic Therapy and Research, he maintains a private practice in Berlin.

Orange, Foreword. New Perspectives in Psychoanalysis. Aggression. Colliding Worlds of Experience: Two Therapeutic Encounters. The Intersubjective Nature of the Oedipal Phase and the Post-Oedipal Object. Epilogue.