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This Book is one of a series, the Library of Object Relations, that is meant to be a venue for new writers who employ diverse aspects of British, American, and international object relations theory. In his introduction, Gabbard identifies himself as a pluralist and an eclectic. He selects from the variety of psychoanalytic theories those he believes best serve the analyst in understanding and helping the patient in the analytic endeavor. He includes the ego psychology of David Rappaport, the South American and British Kleinians, the middle group of the British object relations school, the American relationalists, and those converging with the latter from the classical position. A major influence on him is Thomas Ogden, an American counterpart of the British middle school.
Against this background, Gabbard focuses on what he calls the “sea change” in conceptualization of the analytic relationship, from the prior view of the analyst as dispassionate observer of the patient's intrapsychic conflicts to a view wherein the analyst's full participation in the analytic relationship involves not only countertransference, but enactments. Although Gabbard uses various theoretical formulations to describe the