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IN THIS PAPER I WOULD LIKE TO ADDRESS some questions of psychoanalytic technique. My focus will be on those ways in which the analyst can use himself or herself to facilitate the analytic process and analytic possibilities. I will approach this issue, about which there has been some ambiguity, from the point of view of the analytic interaction as an interpersonal field in which the reactions of each participant are significantly influenced by the overt and covert contributions of the other, as well as the way these responses are experienced.
Historically this interactional dimension of the patient-analyst relationship has received considerable attention in the interpersonal literature, particularly in the writings of Sullivan dating from the 1930s (published 1940), (1953), (1954), (1956), (1962), Fromm-Reichmann (1950), (1952), J. Rioch (1943), C. Thompson (1950), (1952), M. J. White (1952), Tauber (1954), (1979), Wolstein (1954), (1959), (1971), (1973), Feiner (1970), (1975), (1979), (1982), Singer (1971), (1977), Levenson (1972), (1974), (1981a), (1981b), (1982a), (1982b), Ehrenberg (1974), (1975), (1976), Epstein (1979), and Chrzanowski (1979).
The interactive orientation which is the sine qua non of interpersonal psychoanalysis also is important in the writings of others who do not necessarily consider themselves interpersonalists.