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CHANGES IN THE intimacy of social intercourse since World War II have brought about changes in the manifestations of transference and countertransference in psychoanalytic inquiry, and the resulting changes in the actual therapeutic conditions of the analysis of transference and countertransference have, in turn, brought about changes in the experience of intimacy between the psychoanalyst and his patient.
There are many important philosophical and cultural aspects of these various changes to be considered—problems of freedom, choice, and responsibility; automated technology and atomic energy; instant mass communication, space travel, and thermonuclear warfare; minority group unrest and mid-cult anonymity; generation gap and urban malaise; racial and sexual aspirations for equality; humanist versus materialist beliefs and values; respect, love, and compassion for our fellow man. However it is my objective in our panel, tonight, to treat their import from within the evolution and development of psychoanalysis itself.
The major sources of this changing experience of intimacy between the psychoanalyst and his patient are, I believe, to be found in the gradual enlargement since the early 1950's of the