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THE THESIS OF THIS PAPER is that the capacity for what Winnicott (1971) calls "third area, " creative and imaginative experience, can be facilitated by means of a technique of working at what I have called the "intimate edge" in the therapeutic relationship (Ehrenberg, 1974), (1975).
Winnicott (1971) describes an area of experience that belongs neither to internal reality or to external reality. It encompasses all forms of play and cultural experience, and extends to the magic